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Piaggi, Antonio: Diaries of Vesuvius observations


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/2

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Piaggi, Antonio: Diaries of Vesuvius observations

Date(s): 1779-1794

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 8 volumes

Name of creator(s): Piaggi | Antonio | fl 1779-1794 | priest

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Father Antonio Piaggi of the order of Scole Pie resided for many years in Resina at the foot of Mount Vesuvious, he kept a diary of the volcanic activity 1779-1794.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Daily written observations and pencil sketches of volcanic activity, kept by Father Antonio Piaggi, July 1779-August 1794, on behalf of Sir William Hamilton, Piaggi was based at the Madonna Pugliano near Resina at the western side of Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples. With an additional volume dedicated to the major eruption of 1779, (originally volume 1 of the sequence). The volumes have occasional inserted material.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

Chronological.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Half bound in brown leather with gilt tooling, and marbled paper boards. Archival manilla paper covers.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Sources: 'An Account of the Late Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In a Letter from the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, K. B. F. R. S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S', by William Hamilton, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 85, (1795), pp. 73-116. Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Volcanic eruptions | Natural disasters | Disasters
Volcanoes | Volcanology | Geophysics
Vulcanology | Geophysics
Disasters (by type)
Land forms

Personal names
Hamilton | Sir | William | 1730-1803 | Knight | diplomat and archaeologist

Corporate names

Places
Italy | Western Europe | Europe