Preserving the Early Medical Archives in Aberdeen University. (360G-Wellcome-078850_Z_05_Z)

£8,400

The University of Aberdeen seeks funding To carry out a professional conservation survey of its extensive early medical archives and To purchase custom archival folders and boxes for their immediate re-housing. In June 2005, the University was notified of a successful application to the Wellcome Trust's Research Resources in Medical History scheme to catalogue its early medical archives, dating from the 15th century to 1860. The 100 collections submitted for cataloguing include medical lecture notes, treatises, prescriptions, herbals, patients' case notes, dispensary records, records of medical societies and individuals, including correspondence, diaries and journals. In terms of their physical extent, this amounts to 200 volumes and 20 boxes of papers. Cataloguing is scheduled to begin in May 2006. In advance of the cataloguing, it is proposed that staff from the highly respected University of Dundee Book & Paper Conservation Studio carry out a conservation survey on all the project collections and produce a condition report. The condition report will include treatment proposals and costings, as well as recommendations on storage, housing, and environmental conditions. Re-housing of these collections is additional and complementary to the conservation survey, and will not commence until the condition report has been received. Funds are not being sought in this bid to cover the costs of active conservation repair: where this is recommended, additional funds will be sourced at a later stage.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 8400
Applicant Surname MacKinnon
Approval Committee Research Resources Committee
Award Date 2005-11-22T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2005/06
Grant Programme: Title Research Resources Award
Internal ID 078850/Z/05/Z
Lead Applicant Miss Ishbel MacKinnon
Partnership Value 8400
Planned Dates: End Date 2006-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Scotland