IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1055-1061 and 7126
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Barbeyrac, Charles (1629-1699), physician, Montpellier
Date(s): 1694-1748
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 8 volumes
Name of creator(s): Various
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1629; physician in Montpellier, France; died, 1699.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes of Charles Barbeyrac's practice taken chiefly by his students. Some case histories are included in MS.7126.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French and Latin
System of arrangement:
Arranged in sections as follows: Fomulae: student notes: by ?Charles Courbelhac, 1694-1696; Formulae, 1702; Formulae, c 1705; Formulae: student notes by Joseph Gros, 1717; Formulae and other material, 1747-1748; Medical treatises based on the practice of Barbeyrac: by an anonymous pupil, Late 17th century.
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 its typescript supplements by Richard Aspin, Christopher Hilton, Keith Moore and Richard Palmer.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from various sources in 1919, 1928, 1930, 1935, 1939 and 1995.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008