IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3541-3542
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Micheli, Pier Antonio (1679-1737)
Date(s): 1736-1747
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Micheli | Pier Antonio | 1679-1737 | botanist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author was a distinguished and indefatigable botanist and plant collector, who made extensive tours in Italy and Central Europe, and founded the Florence Botanical Society.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Diary of a botanical journey, and notes on the clock at Mantua, 1736-1747.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Italian
System of arrangement:
As above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased at Sotheby's 24/4/1911, Lot 118 (MS.3541); accession details unknown (MS.3542).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2008