IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 WMS/Amer.75-76
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: New Spain: witchcraft, early 19th century
Date(s): c1800-c1806
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Gonzales | Maria Apolonia | fl c1800-c1806
Silberia | Juana | fl c1800-c1806
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The items in this collection relate to accusations of witchcraft made by women in the early 19th century, naming the alleged witch. The papers originate in some part of the empire of New Spain, probably Mexico.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Spanish
System of arrangement:
The items are held in chronological order of composition, so far as that can be established.
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:
manuscript; bound.
Finding aids:
Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1962.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.
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: December 2000.