GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-
1398
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1392)
Title
Collection of medical and veterinary receipts
Shelfmark
MS1364
Creation Date
1686 - 1704
Repository
Contents Note
This manuscript contains a collection of medical and veterinary receipts. Pp. 1-70 is written in a rounded scrivener's hand. Other parts of the manuscript are written in a less sophisticated hand. It is conjectured by the Wellcome Library cataloguer that the manuscript was begun by a professional scribe, with the compiler himself finishing the rest of the manuscript.
Material Features
Octavo. Original calf binding, with two brass and leather clasps.
Associated People
Provenance
From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery Books.
Acquisition
Purchased 1931.
Source of Data
Wellcome Library online catalogue; S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973), Vol. II, p. 148; Hannah Yip.
Sermon Reports Contained
URLs
http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19177884#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-0.7067%2C0.8315%… Digitised copy of Wellcome Library, MS1364.
GEMMS record created
October 26, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024