IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.550, 3083-3086 and 6079-6080
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Bacon Frank: Manuscript Collection, and associated material
Date(s): mid 15th century - mid 18th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: volumes and 2 files
Name of creator(s): Johnston | Nathaniel | 1627-1705
Bacon family
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
These papers comprise the manuscript collection of F[rederick] Bacon Frank (1827-1911). They include a medieval medical miscellany (MS.550), material by or relating to the 17th century Yorkshire physician Nathaniel Johnston (MSS.3083-3086 and 6080), and some Bacon family administrative documents (MS.6079). One item relating to Nathaniel Johnston that did not form part of the Bacon Frank collection has been catalogued with it for convenience (MS.3086).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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: 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) and 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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
With the exception of MS.3086, these MSS. formed part of the F[rederick] Bacon Frank [1827-1911] MSS., described in the Appendix to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1877, by A[lfred] J[ohn] Horwood [1821-1881], c 1745, pp. 448-465.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased at Sotheby's 11/8/1942, Lot 18 (part) apart from MS.3086 which was purchased 1930 at the Hornby Castle Library Sale.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008