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Italian Health Passes


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5139-5140

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Italian Health Passes

Date(s): 1630-1713

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Italian Health Passes

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Health passes (fedi di sanità) issued to the Cavalier Giovanni Francesco Buonamici of Prato, and his servants, for various journeys in time of plague. Issued by the health authorities of Genoa, Lucca, Pisa, Florence, Bologna, Ferrara and Rome, 1630-1633 and health pass issued to Luca Ceccami of Lupinaia by the Conservatori di Sanità of Lucca, 21 Nov 1713.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

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: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired 1913 or earlier.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Plague | Diseases | Pathology
Preventive medicine | Systems of medicine

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Italy | Western Europe | Europe