Fuller Collection
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- Creator
- Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis (1882-1961) antiquarian and anthropologist
TitleFuller Collection
Reference codeFuller
Date12th-20th century [also early Babylonian tablet c2400 BC]
Scope and ContentVarious types of documents of 12th to 19th centuries, predominantly of English origin, but also Scottish, Irish, Italian, French, Spanish, Papal and Imperial. Includes charters from Battle Abbey, Hampshire, Kent, and Coventry. Property-related (land/property deeds and leases; quitclaims; poll tax assessments). Financial/Legal (receipts; accounts; bonds; wills; title deeds; covenants; writs; gift deeds). Administrative (manorial and court rolls; inventories; administrative and personal letters; royal patent letters; Venetian dogal bulls; charters). Ecclesiastical ( Papal bulls of 17th/18th cent). Miscellaneous ( Commonwealth administrative documents; English engravings; a Babylonian tablet c. 2400 B.C; Sanskrit and Burmese documents; Fijian/Pacific items). Seals, seal casts and related drawings.
NotesIrish sources in the Fuller Collection are described in B.C. Donovan and David Edwards, "British Sources for Irish History 1485-1641" (Dublin 1997) , pp178-182, and "British Sources for Irish History before 1485" in "Analecta Hibernica" no.37, 1998, pp204-206.
Conditions governing accessOpen for reseach. At least 24 hours notice required before research visits.
Extent7 cabinets, 35 boxes
System of Arrangement131 boxes and 14 wrapped packages of different sizes
Finding aidsHard-copy catalogues and transcriptions are available in the Special Collections reading room, Senate House Library. Pdf versions of these catalogues and transcriptions are attached to this description.
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Level of descriptionfonds