Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708); Chirac, Pierre (1650-1732); and others

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.4825-4827
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1911; 1916; and at Sotheby's 30/7/1941, Lot 368.

Allied Materials

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: More material by Chriac is held as MSS.1595-1614 & 7600.

Publication note:

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:
Jan 2009