Summary of Jenner's will

Heads of the Will of Dr. Jenner, as ingrossed.

Watermark 1817. This ms. appears to have been drawn up contemporaneously with the will which it summarises [i.e. 1821-22].

c.1817

1 volume 4 ll. folio. 33 × 20 cm. Modern half-calf binding. Partly holograph, partly written by other hands.

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/11/1918, Lot 1012b (part).

Summarises Jenner's will and codicils made 1821-1822. Probably contemporary with the drawing up of the will.

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).

From the Frederick Mockler Collection, exhibited at Bristol in 1893, and at Cardiff in 1896. Probably originally from the papers of Revd. William Davies (1769-1849), one of Jenner's executors.