Metadata: Common-Place book of Emanuel Mendes da Costa, F.R.S.
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- British Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- British Library
- Postal address:
- 96 Euston Road London Greater London United Kingdom NW1 2DB
- Web address:
- http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/index.html
- Email:
- Email: mss@bl.uk
- Reference number:
- Add MS 29867
- Title:
- Common-Place book of Emanuel Mendes da Costa, F.R.S.
- Title (official language):
- Common-Place book of Emanuel Mendes da Costa, F.R.S.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Da Costa, Emanuel Mendez, 1717-1791, botanist and naturalist
- Date(s):
- 1700/1700
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Scope and content:
- Common-Place book of Emanuel Mendes da Costa, F.R.S., containing:-Notes and extracts relating to Jewish antiquities, and chiefly to the Jews in England, f. 2;-"Family anecdotes of Mendes and Da Costa" [see the "Gentleman's Magazine," lxxxii. 21], f. 19 b;-"Notices and anecdotes of litterati, collectors, &c. &c." [see the "Gentleman's Magazine," lxxxii. 205, 513], f. 30 b;- Notes on "Antiquities, languages, belles-lettres, etc .,"f. 44b. Paper; xviiith cent. Folio.NotesNotes of Jewish antiquities and Jews in England, by E. Mendes da Costa: 18th cent.Emanuel Mendes da Costa, FRS; naturalist: Commonplace book: 18th cent.Costa, Da family: Anecdotes of, by E. Mendes da Costa: 18th cent.includes: f. 19 b Mendes family: Anecdotes, by E. Mendes da Costa: 18th cent.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Emanuel Mendez Da Costa (June 5, 1717 – May 31, 1791) was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati.He was one of the first Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London, and became its librarian. He was also a fellow of the Antiquarian Society of London; a member of the Botanic Society in Florence, the Aurelian Society, and the Gentleman's Society at Spalding.His publications included A Natural History of Fossils 1757, Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells 1776, British Conchology 1778, and several important papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and other scientific publications.
- Access points: locations:
- England
- Access points: persons/families:
- da Costa
- Mendes
- Mendes da Costa, Emanuel
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- You need to be a registered Reader in order to request items to a Reading Room.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002021436Guide to Hebrew Collections see https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/hebrew-collections
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
