MS 2086 - Commonplace book of William Rawley

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 227
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1353)
Title
Commonplace book of William Rawley
Shelfmark
MS 2086
Creation Date
ca. 1626 - 1641
Contents Note

A commonplace book compiled by William Rawley between 1626 and 1641, which includes apothegms, anecdotes, medical recipes, notes about gardening, observations regarding natural philosophy, and genealogical information. Written in Rawley's mid-seventeenth-century italic hand. Languages: English, Latin, Greek, Rawley's cipher.

Material Features

Folio. 92 pp.; 46 leaves. All the leaves are disjunct and mounted on paper guards. They are held within a modern guard-book. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Gold lettering on the spine reads: 'WILLIAM RAWLEY'S MS'. The manuscript was likely bound at some time from the 1980s onwards.

Provenance

This book may have been passed to Archbishop Thomas Tenison, along with other papers of Francis Bacon (now Lambeth Palace Library, MSS 647-62).

Acquisition

Rediscovered in the library in 1967 and subsequently assigned a new manuscript number (i.e. 'MS 2086').

Source of Data

CELM; Lambeth Palace Library online catalogue (see link below); Hannah Yip.

URLs
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F54630 TNA catalogue entry for Lambeth Palace Library, MS 2086.
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LAMBETH-02086/5 Digitised copy available on Scriptorium (University of Cambridge Digital Library).
GEMMS record created
August 31, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024