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Royen, Adriaan van (1704-1779)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4307-4311

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Royen, Adriaan van (1704-1779)

Date(s): mid-18th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 volumes

Name of creator(s): Royen | Adriaan | van | 1704-1779 | physician and botanist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Adriaan van Royen was a Dutch physician and botanist, MD at Leyden in 1728, and Professor of Medicine and Botany, from 1732 to 1754. He was the successor of Boerhaave as Director of the Botanical Garden.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Dictata in Materiam Medicam. These MSS. are probably scribal copies of lectures written for the use of students. Produced in Leyden, mid-18th century.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

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:

5 vols. 1545 pp. 4to. 22 × 16 cm. Original half-vellum binding. Written on the rectos only, but with a few added notes on the versos.

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:

Armorial book-plate inside the upper cover of each volume, of George Paterson [1734-1817] of Castle Huntley, who had studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and is recorded as having been a student at Leyden in 1763: he does not appear however to have graduated.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1941.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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: Feb 2009


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

Personal names
Royen | Adriaan | van | 1704-1779 | physician and botanist

Corporate names

Places