IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.324-326
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Guttenberger, Eberhard ( -1518)
Date(s): 1505-1517
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Guttenberger | Eberhard | d 1518 | lecturer in the University of Frankfort-on-Oder
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg [1484-1535] was the founder of the University of Frankfort-on-Oder in 1502, and Guttenberger was the first lecturer in the Medical Faculty. [Cf. Bauch. 'Die Anfänge der Universität Frankfort a.O.' Berlin. 1900, pp. 79-81.].
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Lectiones in primum librum primi Canonis Avicennae, a Gerardo Cremonensi translati, 1505-1517.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
In three volumes
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. 191 ll.: 176 (last bl.): 209 ll. folio. 301/2 x 22 cm. (Vols. 1 and 3): 35 x 23 cm. (Vol. 2). Original stamped half pigskin binding, with two metal and pigskin clasps. Upper margins of Vols. 1 and 3 slightly cropped. Fol. 173 of Vol. 1 is stained and somewhat damaged. In each volume are several inserted slips of various sizes.
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:
Armorial book-plate of Christoph Wenczeslaus, Graf von Nostitz [1643-1712], lettered C.W.G.V.N., in each volume.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1933.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008