| RefNo | CLP/16/49 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, regarding the conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale |
| Date | 1735 |
| Description | Gale writes: 'This marble, lately arrived from and now reposited in the noble museum of Sir Hans Sloane, is a most valuable piece of antiquity, as exhibiting a compleat formula of a chirograph, or conveyance of one part of a burying-place from one family to another, but neither of them of any note, seeming by their Agnomina [family name or nickname] to have been only Liberti, or descended from such.' Includes a figure and transcription of the conveyance.
Subject: Antiquities
Read to the Royal Society on 22 January 1735
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A copy of an ancient chirograph, or conveyance of part of a sepulchre, cut in marble lately brought from Rome, and now in the profession of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. R. S. Pr. with some observations upon it by Roger Gale, Esq; V. P. R. & Tr. R. S' |
| Language | English |
| Latin |
| Extent | 9p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1735.0043 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/19/40 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8406 | Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector | 1660 - 1753 |
| NA2848 | Gale; Roger (1672 - 1744) | 1672 - 1744 |