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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Comparetti, Andrea (1746-1801)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0145

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Comparetti, Andrea (1746-1801)

Date(s): Late 18th century- early 19th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No biographical information was available at the time of compilation.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Andrea Comparetti, late 18th-early 19th century, comprising a manuscript Latin volume titled Andrea Comparetti in Gymnasio Patavino. Observations Anatomica De aure interna Comparata 4to Patavii 1789. The Tables and Explanations, containing a manuscript copy of the tables, explanations, and diagrams of the anatomy of the ear, found in Comparetti's Observationes anatomicae de aure interna comparat (Padua, 1789). The identity of the transcriber is not known.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This manuscript was part of a donation by Sir Anthony Carlisle.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

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: Sep 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ear | Anatomy | Biology
Hearing | Sensory systems | Nervous systems | Anatomy | Biology

Personal names
Comparetti | Andrea | 1746-1801 | anatomist

Corporate names

Places
Padua | Italy | Western Europe | Europe