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Medici Family


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3508-3510

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Medici Family

Date(s): 1735

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Medici Family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Not given.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Origine della Casa de' Medici. Vol. I, Dall'anno DCCC a MDXXXVI. With a folding genealogical tree in red and black. Vol. II. Dall'anno MCXXV a MDLXXXVII. Vol. III. Dall'anno MDCCXV a MDCCXXX. The latest date is 30 August 1731 (Vol. III, p. 271), and this MS. appears to have been written during the life-time of the disreputable Giovanni Gaston I [1671-1737].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

As set out 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.

Physical characteristics:

3 vols. folio. 34 × 23 1/2 cm. Original half-vellum binding. The first (blank) leaf of Vol. I has been mutilated.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Armorial book-plate of the Honourable Frederic North afterwards 5th Earl of Guildford [1766-1827]. Phillipps MS. 7116.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/6/1919, Lot 815.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: October 2008


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