IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1369-1370
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Brown, John (1735-1788)
Date(s): c 1800
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Brown | John | 1735-1788 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
An interleaved copy of the first volume of John Brown's, Elementa medicinae, 1st ed. (Edinburgh: C. Elliot, 1780), with incomplete holograph MS. translation by Robert Batty [1763-1849]. Pasted inside the cover of Vol. 1 is an engraved portrait of Dr. Brown by James Heath [1757-1834] after John Donaldson's [1737-1801] miniature; and inside that of the second volume, an engraving of the same by John Caldwall [ -1819], published in 1799.
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:
1 vol. in 2. 8vo. 18 x 111/2 cm. Original half-calf binding, defective.
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:
Library stamp of R[obert] Batty M.D. [1763-1849] at the beginning of each volume.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1920.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009