GB 0120 MSS.7617-7619 - Sédillot, Joseph (1738-1825), Sédillot, Jean (1757-1840) and Sédillot, Charles Emmanuel (1804-1883)

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GB 0120 MSS.7617-7619

Title

Sédillot, Joseph (1738-1825), Sédillot, Jean (1757-1840) and Sédillot, Charles Emmanuel (1804-1883)

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  • 1790-1875 (Creation)

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3 files (34 items)

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Biographical history

The Sédillot family from Clermont, Cantal, produced several medical figures in the course of a few generations. Jean Sédillot was founder and editor of the Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy. Charles Sédillot was a military surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the Strasbourg faculty of medicine.

For further biographical information see Charles Henri Sunder, La vie et les oeuvres de Ch. Emmanuel Sedillot (1804-1883) (Strasbourg: Les Editions Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1933) and Alain Ségal, "Notice biographique sur Jean Sédillot Le Jeune (1757-1840)", in Histoire des sciences médicales T. 30, no. 4 (1996), pp. 495-500.

Archival history

GB 0120 MSS.7617-7619 1790-1875 Collection (fonds) 3 files (34 items) Sédillot , Joseph , 1738-1825),

Sédillot , Jean , 1757-1840 , physician

Sédillot , Charles Emmanuel , 1804-1883 , surgeon

The Sédillot family from Clermont, Cantal, produced several medical figures in the course of a few generations. Jean Sédillot was founder and editor of the Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy. Charles Sédillot was a military surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the Strasbourg faculty of medicine.

For further biographical information see Charles Henri Sunder, La vie et les oeuvres de Ch. Emmanuel Sedillot (1804-1883) (Strasbourg: Les Editions Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1933) and Alain Ségal, "Notice biographique sur Jean Sédillot Le Jeune (1757-1840)", in Histoire des sciences médicales T. 30, no. 4 (1996), pp. 495-500.

MS.7617 purchased from Charavay, Paris, January 1934 (acc.67097). MS.7618 purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), January 1934 (acc.67097) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); and an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391). MS.7619 purchased from: an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63453), February 1931 (acc.64689), January 1933 (acc.66034); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); and Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469); no.17 transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts (acc.311223), a note on its index card in the former Autograph Letters Sequence finding aid stating it to have been presented by Dr. Dourmestraux of Chartres, 1938. Formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Papers of Charles, Joseph and Jean Sédillot, medics, 1790-1875.

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.

French

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; 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

MS.7617 purchased from Charavay, Paris, January 1934 (acc.67097). MS.7618 purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), January 1934 (acc.67097) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); and an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391). MS.7619 purchased from: an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63453), February 1931 (acc.64689), January 1933 (acc.66034); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); and Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469); no.17 transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts (acc.311223), a note on its index card in the former Autograph Letters Sequence finding aid stating it to have been presented by Dr. Dourmestraux of Chartres, 1938. Formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

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Papers of Charles, Joseph and Jean Sédillot, medics, 1790-1875.

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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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French

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Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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