Chamberlayne, Peter (1601-1683)

MISSING SINCE 1989. Liber amicorum. Containing 34 signed entries, including a few original drawings, by contemporary scholars, English and foreign. The entries are as under: 1. Sbastyn Sbasty (Johannes de). 22 March, 1619. 2. Sainte Catherine (A.). Heidelberg, 16/26 March, 1619. 3. Caus (Salomon de) [1576?-1630]. With emblazoned coat of arms, 16 March, 1619. 4. Fouquières (Jacques) [1580-1659]. Water-colour landscape, signed. n.d. 5. Sancourt-Villarnon (Zacarie de). 17 January, 1620. 6. Gruter (Janus) [1560-1627]. Heidelberg, 12 October, 1619. 7. Gothofred (Denis) [1549-1622]. Heidelberg, 17 October, 1619. 8. Delaune [Launeus] (Paul) [1583?-1654], M.D. London, 24 May, 1620. 9. Marius (Nathaniel). Partly in Hebrew. London, 17 December, 1619. 10. Asheworth (Henry), [M.D. Oxon.]. n.d. 11. Gillingham (George) [ -1668]. [Oxford], n.d. 12. Dickinson (William) [1585- ]. Oxford, 16 June, 1620. 13. Lingelsheim (George Michael). Heidelberg, 17 October, 1619. 14. Hawley (Richard) [1593-1636]. Oxford, 18 June, 1620. 15. Lapworth (Edward) [1574-1636], M.D. Oxford, 16 July, 1620. 16. Brosterhuisen (Johannes). London, 23 February, 1626. 17. Jungnitz (Christophorus). Heidelberg, 29 March, 1619. 18. Kimedoncius (Abraham). Heidelberg, 23 March [1619]. 19. Clayton [Clatton] (Thomas) [1575-1647]. Reg. Prof. M.D. Oxford, 26 June, 1620. 20. Burton (William) [1560-1623]. Med. Prof., Cambridge. n.d. 21. Gostlin (John) [1568?-1626]. Cambridge, n.d. 22. Chaloner (Edward) [1590-1625], of All Souls, Oxford, n.d. 23. Wheare (Degory) [1573-1647], of Oxford. n.d. 24. Cruso (Aquila) [1595-1660], of Cambridge. London, 29 September, 1621. 25. Gardiner (Richard) [1591-1670], of Oxford. n.p., 14 July, 1620. 26. Mel (J.). With emblematic pen-drawing. Heidelberg, 18 October, 1619. 27. Hoffbilthau (Leonhart von). With pen-drawing of nude man. Heidelberg, 24 October, 1619. 28. Cnopf (Raphael), of Danzig. London, 16 October, 1621. 29. Heinn (Samuel). Heidelberg, 20 March, 1619. 30. Chapman (Alexander) [1577-1629]. n.p., 19 March, 1619. 31. Rumpler (Jacob). Heidelberg, 20 March, 1619. 32. Schlieff (Christophorus), of Danzig. Heidelberg, 22 March, 1619. 33. Odryus (G.), of Geneva. n.p., n.d. 34. Pygott (Bartholomew). n.p., 18 October, 1619.

1619-1626

1 volume 76 ll. (of which 46 are blank). 8vo. 151/2 x 91/2 cm. Contemporary gilt stamped morocco binding, with repeated floreated ornament and initials 'P.C.' in the centre, slightly rubbed.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Frere Sale) 3/10/1907, Lot 320.

Peter Chamberlayne, the original owner of this Album, was the third physician of his name, and was educated at Merchant Taylors School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He took his M.D. Degree at Padua in 1619, and was afterwards incorporated both at Oxford and Cambridge. [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

The first two fly-leaves contain a holograph note on Chamberlayne and his work by Sir John Fenn [1739-1794), whose armorial book-plate with signature dated 1774, is pasted inside the upper cover. He writes, 'This Album containing various testimonies of Respect and Esteem in the Hand-writing of the Learned Ingenious Men of his Time towards Dr. Peter Chamberlayne, was given me by Richard Bull Esq., Member for Newport in Cornwall, a Great Collector of English Portraits. Feb'y. 1774.' Some added particulars are given by Arthur Howard Frere [1860-1931].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).