de Gorter, John: Commentaries

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MS.MSL.59 (a & b)
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: de Gorter, John: Commentaries
Date(s)	: 18th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 vols., Vol. i (59A) 377 folios; Vol. ii (59B) 364 folios
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

[Jan van Gorter, Dutch physician, (1689-1762), published his Compendium Medicinae at Leiden in 1731-1737]. Van Gorter studied at Leyden under Boerhaave, and in 1754 was invited to Russia by the Empress Elizabeth, who made him her first physician.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Early eighteenth century transcript by an unknown writer of John De Gorter's [Jan van Gorter] Commentaries.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Numerical

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: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 2008