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Lisfranc, Jacques (1790-1847)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7063-7065

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Lisfranc, Jacques (1790-1847)

Date(s): 1822-1823

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 vols.

Name of creator(s): Lisfranc | Jacques | 1790-1847 | French surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Cours de Chirurgie de Mr Lisfranc...', transcribed by A. Léonardon, Paris. An incomplete transcript of Lisfranc's course of surgical lectures, probably delivered at his house at 149 Rue St. Martin, Paris, from 1 May 1822. The first volume of the original set, comprising the earliest lectures, is wanting, although a note on f. 1r. of MS. 7063 indicates that the course began on 12 Nov. 1821.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

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.

Physical characteristics:

3 vols., each 210 × 150 mm. Contemporary blue paper-covered boards, with vellum spines, labelled 'Lisfranc, Cours de Chirurgie, 1822'.

Finding aids:

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from James Tait Goodrich, 1993.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Surgery | Medical sciences

Personal names
Lisfranc | Jacques | 1790-1847 | French surgeon

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe