The University Libraries hold some remarkable and precious documents in their collections.
Such as a good-sized leather-bound volume in the Health Libraries' Heritage Reserve, decorated with a reproduction of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson by Doctor Tulp. Inside, twenty-two sheets of handwritten parchment... Letters Patent signed by King Louis XV on June 5, 1769: the Statuts and Regulations for the College of Masters in Surgery of the City, Suburbs, District and Territory of Marseille.
Dive into the history of a profession in full evolution through Laurent Dauvergne's article published in the "Conserver, enseigner, chercher" research notebook: https: //tresoramu.hypotheses.org/category/decouverte-du-patrimoine-amu
As well as with the current exhibition La Charte des chirurgiens de 1769 : un acte fondateur pour la Médecine à Marseille, at the Medicine library (2nd floor) until April 14.
To find out more about this document and its current status, join us for a talk by Laurent Dauvergne, head of the heritage collections at amU's BU Santé, on Thursday April 24 at the medicine library.
The digitized version of the Charte des Chirurgiens is available on the Odyssée digital heritage library: https: //odyssee.univ-amu.fr/items/show/31#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0
