Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London

1972 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Strelcyn
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Manuscripts

The Library of the Wellcome Institute is devoted to the history of medicine and related sciences. Apart from some 250,000 printed books, it contains about 10,000 manuscripts, half of which are in Oriental languages.In 1970 I was entrusted with describing the Ethiopian manuscripts belonging to this library. There were 34 of them: 17 mostly of religious content and completely unrelated to the interests of the Institute, 16 magical scrolls, and one manuscript mainly of divinatory content. Without constituting medical manuscripts in the strict sense of the term, the scrolls are designed to combat demons and diseases and to keep people in good health. They can be called magico-medical scrolls and belong to the field of ethnomedicine. The scrolls are written in Gə'az with strong Amharic influence. At the suggestion of Dr. F. N. L. Poynter, Director of the Wellcome Institute, the Wellcome Trust decided to donate the first group of manuscripts to the British Museum, to whom 14 were presented in June 1970 and 3 others in June 1971. All these manuscripts have been described by the present writer in the Catalogue of the Ethiopian manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since 1877 (in preparation). The present catalogue notes contain only the description of the 16 scrolls and the divinatory manuscript.

scholarly journals Wybrane kolekcje historyczne z zakresu historii medycyny i farmacji we współczesnych zbiorach muzealnych i bibliotekach naukowych Stambułu – część pierwsza

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-131
Author(s):  
Bożena Płonka-Syroka
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Libraries

Selected historical collections in the field of the history of medicine and pharmacy in the contemporary museum collections and scientific libraries of Istanbul. Part one In the collections of Turkish public scientific institutions, museums and libraries, there are extensive resources of historical artifacts connected thematically with the history of medicine and pharmacy. They include mainly manuscript books in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and also in Greek and Latin, which were gathered in the capital of the Ottoman Empire. The historical and medical collections contain also numerous printed books, including critical editions of the work by the classic authors of Islamic medicine together with their translations into congressional languages. In Istanbul, we can also fi nd numerous examples of various types of devices and equipment used in connection with the treatment and production of medicines. The article consists of two parts. The first part presents the outline of the history of the evelopment of historical collections in Istanbul connected with the history of medicine and pharmacy. The second part describes selected museum facilities and collections.

Philip Harris (1926-2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 371-373
Author(s):  
Michael Hodgetts
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
The West ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
West European

Philip Harris, who died on 21 July 2018 at the age of ninety-one, was born in Woodford, Essex, and educated at St Anthony’s School in Woodford (1932-7), St Ignatius College in London (1937-44), Birkbeck College, London, and the Institute of Historical Research. In 1953 he was awarded an M.A. for a thesis on ‘English Trade with the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late 16th Century’. From 1947 onwards he was on the staff of the British Museum (of which the Library was then part), becoming Assistant Secretary in 1959, Deputy Superintendent of the Reading Room in 1963 and Deputy Keeper in 1966. He was in charge in turn of the Acquisitions, the English and North European, and the West European Branches of the Department of Printed Books. In 1998 he published his History of the British Museum Library, the fruit of more than ten years’ research after his ‘retirement’ in 1986.1 His final project there, almost complete when he died, was on the Old Royal Library donated to the Museum by George II.2 At his funeral the first reading was read by a former head of the Chinese Department there.

ASSYRIOLOGY AT THE MARGINS, THE CASE OF WILLIAM ST. CHAD BOSCAWEN (1855–1913)

Iraq ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Ruth Horry
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This study presents the career of late-nineteenth-century Assyriologist William St. Chad Boscawen (1855–1913) as a case study in recovering contributions to knowledge-making by low-status, marginal actors. Boscawen took Assyriological knowledge and expertise, gained at the British Museum, into a new disciplinary setting: a private museum of history of medicine, owned by pharmaceuticals entrepreneur Henry Wellcome (1853–1936). Yet his relocation was only partially successful, and his contributions to knowledge were transient. I employ a sociological framework to explore how social factors, as much as academic ones, influenced Boscawen's career trajectory. In doing so, I argue that studying marginal figures offers a richer understanding of past Assyriological practices and the wider research community in which the most prominent figures operated.

The oriental collections in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London

1981 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Allan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Photographic Material ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of

One of the larger, and probably the least well-known collections of oriental manuscripts, printed books and other two-dimensional material in the United Kingdom (and possibly in Europe) is to be found in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The collection includes over 10,000 manuscripts, some 900 written on palm leaves, and others on paper, metal, leather and ivory. There are about 3,000 books printed in oriental scripts, prints, drawings, paintings, and items of photographic material. Over 30 languages are represented in the collection.

Maṟaimalai Aṭikaḷ: a London Bibliography

1975 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
K. Nambi Arooran
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Bibliography

The aim of this article is to present a complete bibliography of the works of Cuvāmi Vētācalam (popularly known as Maṟaimalai Aṭikaḷ, 1876–1950) which are available at the British Museum (Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts), the India Office Library, and the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This may be of some help to students of Tamil language and literature and also to persons dealing with the history of the Madras Presidency in the first half of this century. Also included at the end is a list of works of Aṭikaḷ that are not available in London.

History of medicine

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
David Pearson ◽  
Susan Gove ◽  
John Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
History Of

History of medicine

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Prakash Singh
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
History Of
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