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- 1736-1747 (Creation)
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2 volumes
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Biographical history
The author was a distinguished and indefatigable botanist and plant collector, who made extensive tours in Italy and Central Europe, and founded the Florence Botanical Society.
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GB 0120 MSS.3541-3542 1736-1747 Collection 2 volumes Micheli , Pier Antonio , 1679-1737 , botanist
The author was a distinguished and indefatigable botanist and plant collector, who made extensive tours in Italy and Central Europe, and founded the Florence Botanical Society.
Purchased at Sotheby's 24/4/1911, Lot 118 (MS.3541); accession details unknown (MS.3542).
Diary of a botanical journey, and notes on the clock at Mantua, 1736-1747.
As 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
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 from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.
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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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased at Sotheby's 24/4/1911, Lot 118 (MS.3541); accession details unknown (MS.3542).
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Diary of a botanical journey, and notes on the clock at Mantua, 1736-1747.
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As above in Scope and Content.
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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.
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- English
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- Latin
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Italian
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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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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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- English