Miscellany: early 18th century
- Date:
- Early 18th century
- Reference:
- MS.7819/2
- Part of:
- Miscellany: early 18th century
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Various personal and other memoranda, apparently in the same hand, early in the 18th century. The memoranda largely concern bizarre medical and other events, such as prodigious feats of fertility, unusual surgical interventions, and notorious crimes and punishments; they begin: `Naples June 1730, my Whore lent here gown & petticoat & lac'd rufles to cloath the Madonna in a church on a holy day'. Later the writer notes:' I saw a woman at Padua Nov. 1730 ...; the latest date mentioned is June 1731.
Publication/Creation
Early 18th century
Physical description
2 ff. 202 x 156 mm.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts