Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

RESTRICTED: Use of microfilm in older formats may require staff assistance or production of a viewing copy.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Loren Carey MacKinney Collection on Medieval Medicine #3665, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Loren C. MacKinney of Chapel Hill, N.C., in December 1963 with an addition from Thomas C. Herndon in August 1991 (Acc. 91118).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A card file providing an index to the microfilm and photostats collected by MacKinney was completed by Michael McVaugh of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History Department in 1965 and is filed in box 2.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Noah Huffman, June 2007

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, June 2007

Updated by Rebecca Stubbs and Laura Smith, February 2022; Dawne Howard Lucas, March 2022

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• MacKinney, Loren Carey, 1891-1963.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.
• Medical illustration--History.
• Medicine, Medieval.
• Medievalists--United States.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.

MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (digitized images of the Loren MacKinney collection of Ektachrome slides of medieval medical illustrations)

Loren Carey MacKinney was a professor of medieval history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1930 until his death in 1963. MacKinney was born in Minnesota and received degrees from Lawrence College and the University of Chicago. He taught at eight colleges and universities before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill, and was regarded as an authority on the history of medieval medicine. His publications included Early Medieval Medicine, with Special Reference to France and Chartres (1937), The Medieval World (1938), and Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts (1965).

The collection consists of microfilm and photostats chiefly of medieval medical manuscripts compiled by medievalist Loren Carey MacKinney. Also included are MacKinney's research notes on medieval medicine, medieval medical illustrations, and related topics.

• Glass negatives (SF-P-3665/1-4)
• Microfolm (M-3665/1)