Sagittary, John (fl 1690)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0099
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: Sagittary, John (fl 1690)
Date(s)	: c1690
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Sagittary | John | fl 1690 | physician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Sagittary (fl 1690) lived in Blandford, and qualified as an MD in Oxford.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of John Sagittary, c 1690, comprising a manuscript volume in Latin titled De Generatione Calculi, a treatise on stone (for instance, a gall stone or kidney stone).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

Additional manuscripts catalogue.

Archival Information

Archival history:

A card with the volume suggests the bookseller may have purchased the volume from Christies. The volume also contains a sticker for 'G A Poynder, Antiquarian Book-Shop, Next to General Post Office, Reading'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from H W Edwards (Booksllers) Ltd in 1966.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

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:
Aug 2008