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Rossi, Johannes Baptista de (fl 1760)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4271-4273

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Rossi, Johannes Baptista de (fl 1760)

Date(s): [1760]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Rossi | Johannes Baptista de | fl 1760

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Not given.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Empyrica adversus Dogmaticismum vindicata, seu de Medicina Empyrica restituenda libri tres. Author's holograph MS. A very controversial work, apparently unpublished, which must have involved extensive research into medical literature. Among the many hundreds of notes and references is an added paragraph to Note 424 of the third volume, which is dated 1766.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. 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:

3 vols. folio. 30 × 20 cm. Original boards.

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).

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1933.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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: November 2008


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Philosophy, medical | Philosophy

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