| Description Of Item | Papers include:
Folder 1 - Correspondence with Sotheby's on Ripley scrolls sold by them and correspondence
Folder 2 - originally in a folder titled 'Scroll RCPE'. Includes McCallum's plan of study; abstracts from a conference 'The Rising Dawn - The Contribution of Alchemy to Medieval Medicine and Intellectual Life; black and white photographs of the Ripley scroll; 'The Ripley Scroll of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by R I McCallum in the Journal of the International Society for the History of Medicine, 1996; article 'A Note on Alchemy' in the newsletter of the College, 1996; letters thanking McCallum for copies of his article and making comments; and colour photographs of the scroll.
Folder 3 - photocopies of the notebooks at MCC/1/8-9 not retained. 'Thomas Charnock' by F Sherwood Taylor; and folder of material on the Wellcome scroll including report of the Chief Librarian 1934, Sotheby catalogues, McCallum's notes, 'Connoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures' by A N L Munby, report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and a letter from the Wellcome Institute on the provenance of their scroll.
Folder 4 - correspondence with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge on the provenance of their scroll. |