IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0099
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Sagittary, John (fl 1690)
Date(s): c1690
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Sagittary | John | fl 1690 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Sagittary (fl 1690) lived in Blandford, and qualified as an MD in Oxford.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of John Sagittary, c 1690, comprising a manuscript volume in Latin titled De Generatione Calculi, a treatise on stone (for instance, a gall stone or kidney stone).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Additional manuscripts catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
A card with the volume suggests the bookseller may have purchased the volume from Christies. The volume also contains a sticker for 'G A Poynder, Antiquarian Book-Shop, Next to General Post Office, Reading'.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from H W Edwards (Booksllers) Ltd in 1966.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008