Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Introductory lectures

Authors

• Shippen, William, 1736?-1808

Other related names

• Heydrick, Christopher, 1770-1856, transcriber

Call number

Ms. Codex 1163
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4300944
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4300944

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

circa 1790

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Notes of Christopher Heydrick, a student at the University of Pennsylvania circa 1790, taken from the lectures of William Shippen on anatomy. Topics include the definition and origin of anatomy, blood, glands, nerves, reproductive organs, bones, lungs, and heart.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

100 leaves : 201 x 162 mm. bound to 207 x 179 mm

Foliation

Paper, vi + 92 + ii; signatures A-M every sixth leaf beginning on f. 19; [1-92]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf; upper cover detached.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines; ruling in red occasionally visible; catchwords at the bottom of each page.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Gift of Louise Heydrick, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• University of Pennsylvania.--Dept. of Medicine
• Anatomy--18th century
• Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

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