IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2272-2279
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Ebers Papyrus
Date(s): c.1903
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 8 volumes
Name of creator(s): Hopkirk | Arthur F. | fl 1889-1913 | physician
Joachim | Heinrich | b 1860 | physician and medical historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Ebers Papyrus was named after its owner, Georg Moritz Ebers (1837-1898) and comprises an ancient Egyptian text on medicine. A translation from ancient Egyptian into German was published by Dr. Heinrich Joachim in 1890. These papers comprise a translation of Joachim's work into English by Dr. Arthur F. Hopkirk.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Translation into English of ancient Egyptian text on the healing art.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
MSS.2272-2277 comprise Hopkirk's manuscript translation of Joachim's text; a bibliography, contents, index and notes are inserted into MS.2277. MSS.2278-2279 are a typescript copy of Hopkirk's translation.
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:
holograph and typescript volumes.
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
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquisition details not clear (accession number 9894).
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Publication note:
The material described here is an unpublished translation into English of Papyros Ebers: das älteste Buch über Heilkunde by Heinrich Joachim (Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1890). Another English translation of Joachim's text was published in 1930 by C.P. Bryan: The Papyrus Ebers / translated from the German version by Cyril P. Bryan ... with an introduction by Professor J. Elliot Smith (London : G. Bles, [1930]).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.
Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000.