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.
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.
This book may have been passed to Archbishop Thomas Tenison, along with other papers of Francis Bacon (now Lambeth Palace Library, MSS 647-62).
Rediscovered in the library in 1967 and subsequently assigned a new manuscript number (i.e. 'MS 2086').
CELM; Lambeth Palace Library online catalogue (see link below); Hannah Yip.