IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4825-4827
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708); Chirac, Pierre (1650-1732); and others
Date(s): [1725-1730]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Tournefort | Joseph Pitton | de | 1656-1708 | French botanist and physician
Chirac | Pierre | 1650-1732 | French physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Pierre Chirac was the most celebrated physician of his day; he obtained his MD at Montpellier in 1683, and by 1687 was Professor of Medicine. He was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1716, became head of the Jardin du Roi in 1718, and Physician to Louis XV in 1731.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes on medical plants, [1725-1730].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
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.
Physical characteristics:
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1911; 1916; and at Sotheby's 30/7/1941, Lot 368.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
In the Wellcome Library: More material by Chriac is held as MSS.1595-1614 & 7600.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009