IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3412-3413
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694)
Date(s): c 1695-1717
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Malpighi | Marcello | 1628-1694 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Malpighi was appointed Papal physician in 1691.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
One volume bringing together texts relating to the "Malpighian controversy" in anatomy, c 1695-1717, plus some receipts, and a second volume recording consultations undertaking by Marcello Malpighi.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Italian and 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:
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1908, 1910.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009