IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2498-2499
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Geoffroy, Estienne Louis (1725-1810)
Date(s): c 1760
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): [ Geoffroy | Estienne Louis | 1725-1810 | medical student ]
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Estienne Louis Geoffroy was son of Estienne François Geoffroy [1672-1731], and nephew of Claude Joseph Geoffroy [1685-1752], a member of the Faculté de Médecine of Paris.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Anonymous student's lecture notes, the manuscripts, written largely in the same hand, have been assigned to Estienne Louis Geoffroy. Produced in Paris, [1760].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French
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:
912 pp. + 6 ll. 4to. 21 × 161/2 cm. Original vellum binding with calf-gilt spine, uniform with the binding of MS. No. 2499, and lettered 'Tome II'.
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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1928.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009