Identity area
Reference code
GC/BUR/F
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- n.d. (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
parchment, volumes and individual pieces of paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
See also the stewards accounts (DOM:S), tutorial finance (BUR:TUT), and estate accounts (BUR:E).
Notes area
Note
CNLB was amused to find a reference in the University Reporter section on the Caius accounts to ‘Profits on the Kitchen’ – apparently the kitchen has been making a loss for as long as he has been at Caius. Whilst looking at the University Reporter he advocated keeping copies of them at Caius, describing them as “an essential part of the Archives” as it is very difficult to understand what is happening in all the College account books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries without making reference to them.
In the 1950s the corporate income of the College was somewhere in the region of £50-70000 (and that was for a rich College – more so then, comparatively, even than it is now!), and only about two thirds of that annual income was ever spent. Serves as a mark of how inflation has galloped in recent decades. [CNLB]