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Size | 9.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5200 items) |
Abstract | 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 MacKinney Collection consists mostly of microfilm and photostats chiefly of medieval medical manuscripts, as well as MacKinney's extensive research notes on medieval medicine, medieval medical illustrations, and related topics. |
Creator | MacKinney, Loren Carey, 1891-1963. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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
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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)
Back to TopLoren 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).
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopProcessing Note: Microfilm and photostats were labeled by MacKinney according to the first letter of the location of the original manuscript and then given an arbitrary number (e.g.. C3 for Cambridge). A card file located in box 2 provides an index to the microfilm and photostats. Microfilm of published articles from scholarly journals is labeled with the letter X.
RESTRICTED: Use of microfilm in older formats may require staff assistance or production of a viewing copy.
Microfilm, photostats, and photo prints chiefly of medieval manuscripts mostly related to MacKinney's research on medieval medicine and medical illustrations. Of particular note are photo prints of Chartres Ms. 62, filed as M2 (Montpelier), which were made prior to 1944 when the original manuscript was destroyed during World War II. MacKinney's photostat of the Chartres manuscript is one of only two known copies.
Reel M-3665/1 |
Microfilm |
Box 1 |
MicrofilmContains items A1-O6, with some exceptions filed in folders in box 2. |
Box 2 |
Microfilm and PhotostatsItems P1-X28 and additional photostats filed in folders. Also included is a card file that provides an index to the microfilm and photostats. |
Photostats: Items B11-B12 and E7-E8 |
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Photostats: Items M2, L2-L4 |
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Photostats: Item M2 (Chartres Ms. 62) |
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Photostats: Items P7-P8 |
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Photostats: Items R6-R7 |
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Photostats: Items P12-P13, G3, V4, W1, and X20 |
Subject files and research notes mostly contain information on topics related to MacKinney's research on the history of medieval medicine and medieval medical illustrations. There are a number of photo prints of particular illustrations and several typescripts of articles, lectures, and other works by MacKinney. Also included are card files that contain MacKinney's research notes on particular manuscripts and other topics related to his research interests.
Glass negatives of medieval manuscripts and objects related to medieval medicine.
Special Format Image SF-P-3665/1-4
SF-P-3665/1SF-P-3665/2SF-P-3665/3SF-P-3665/4 |
Glass Negatives |