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Common-Place Books, 18th cent.


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1751-1752

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Common-Place Books, 18th cent.

Date(s): c 1725

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of extracts, receipts, and notes mostly from medical authors of the early part of the 18th cent.

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:

2 vols. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original quarter-calf bindings, worn. Margins cropped in binding.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

On a fly-leaf of the first volume is the signature of 'Otho F. Wyer M.D. June 1867'. Pasted inside the upper cover is his armorial book-plate. Inside the upper cover of the second volume there is a signed note by him 'These 2 vols. of manuscript notes were given to me by the Revd. Robert Dalby, Vicar of Belton June 1867'. Otho Francis Wyer [1857-1916] was a physician of Leamington. Robert Dalby [formerly Blunt] [1808-1884], was Vicar of Belton from 1840 to 1869.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1928.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009


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Commonplace books | Manuscripts | Documents | Information sources
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Medical sciences

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