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

Date:
1790-1875
Reference:
MSS.7617-7619
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

The items listed below were formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Publication/Creation

1790-1875

Physical description

3 files (34 items)

Acquisition note

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.

Biographical note

The Sédillot family from Clermont, Cantal, produced several medical figures in the course of a few generations.

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.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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Accession number

  • Various - see Acquisition note.