Collection GB 0120 MSS.3508-3510 - Medici Family

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0120 MSS.3508-3510

Title

Medici Family

Date(s)

  • 1735 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

3 volumes

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Not given.

Archival history

Armorial book-plate of the Honourable Frederic North afterwards 5th Earl of Guildford [1766-1827]. Phillipps MS. 7116.

GB 0120 MSS.3508-3510 1735 Collection 3 volumes Medici Family

Not given.

Armorial book-plate of the Honourable Frederic North afterwards 5th Earl of Guildford [1766-1827]. Phillipps MS. 7116.

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/6/1919, Lot 815.

Origine della Casa de' Medici. Vol. I, Dall'anno DCCC a MDXXXVI. With a folding genealogical tree in red and black. Vol. II. Dall'anno MCXXV a MDLXXXVII. Vol. III. Dall'anno MDCCXV a MDCCXXX. The latest date is 30 August 1731 (Vol. III, p. 271), and this MS. appears to have been written during the life-time of the disreputable Giovanni Gaston I [1671-1737].

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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.

Italian

3 vols. folio. 34 × 23 1/2 cm. Original half-vellum binding. The first (blank) leaf of Vol. I has been mutilated.

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).

Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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.

October 2008 Medici Family Genealogy

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/6/1919, Lot 815.

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Scope and content

Origine della Casa de' Medici. Vol. I, Dall'anno DCCC a MDXXXVI. With a folding genealogical tree in red and black. Vol. II. Dall'anno MCXXV a MDLXXXVII. Vol. III. Dall'anno MDCCXV a MDCCXXX. The latest date is 30 August 1731 (Vol. III, p. 271), and this MS. appears to have been written during the life-time of the disreputable Giovanni Gaston I [1671-1737].

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Accruals

System of arrangement

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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Conditions governing access

Open. 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.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

Italian

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

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).

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Wellcome Library

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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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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