Series RAS COLL7/8 - Long Term Loans

Identity area

Reference code

GB 891 RAS COLL7-RAS COLL7/8

Title

Long Term Loans

Date(s)

  • 1946 - present (Creation)

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Series

Extent and medium

3 archival folders

Context area

Name of creator

Name of creator

(1753-)

Administrative history

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his royal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum. The British Museum Act 1753 added two other libraries to the Sir Hans Sloane collection, those of the Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dating back to Elizabethan times, and the Harleian Library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford. They were joined in 1757 by the "Old Royal Library", now the Royal manuscripts, assembled by various British monarchs.

Montagu House, c. 1715
The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything. Sloane's collection, while including a vast miscellany of objects, tended to reflect his scientific interests.[16] The addition of the Cotton and Harley manuscripts introduced a literary and antiquarian element, and meant that the British Museum now became both National Museum and library

Name of creator

(1973)

Administrative history

The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum. The library is located on Euston Road, London, The British Library is a major research library, with items in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and items dating as far back as 2000 BC. The library maintains a programme for content acquisition.

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Archival history

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

The Society, in its history, has lent various of its collections to institutions on long term loans either because of specialist care needs of the items or because of a particular interest in the collections by the lending institution. The material in this series is the correspondence and documentation connected with these long term loans.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

The material was divided into three subseries covering each of the major long term loans:

  • RAS COLL7/8/1 - Persian manuscripts
  • RAS COLL7/8/2 - Indian miniature paintings
  • RAS COLL7/8/3 - Grant inscriptions

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      Description control area

      Description identifier

      gb 891 ras coll7/8

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

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