Graphical version

Wellcome Library

Seeger, Johann David

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4481-4486

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Seeger, Johann David

Date(s): 1772-1776

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 6 volumes

Name of creator(s): Seeger | Johann David | fl 1772-1776

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Johann David Seegar's holograph MSS entitled 'Philosophische und theologische Gedanken von der Entelechie, oder von der bewegenden und herfürbringenden Krafft der Natur und ihrer von dem Schöpfer von Anfang beygelegten Fortpflantzungs-Weise der Menschen und der Thiere und ihrer Seelen'. Of the two volumes, the first contains a copy of the first three chapters, the second 'Beylagen' to the main text.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

As outlined in scope and content.

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:

2 vols. + 4 vols. folio. 321/2 × 21 cm. The 4 vols. in original boards, the other two unbound. Author's name cut out from the title-page of the first volume of the complete work.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

From the Library of Julius Kohn.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/1/1935, Lot 28.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.