Barret, Robert

  • Barret, Robert
Date:
c. 1660
Reference:
MS.1070
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Description

The Buds of Experience. Shewing a most exact, easie and speedy way of Curing all Sorances and diseases incident to horses, written by Robert Barret of Esborne in Sussex ... Preceded by four anonymous religious meditations, etc. (13 ll.). A list of Fairs, mostly in Surrey (7 ll.). A Meditation taken out of the 'Compendious forme of Christian Divinitie' by John Wolleby [i.e. Johann Wolleb] (16 ll.).

Publication/Creation

c. 1660

Physical description

1 volume 13 ll. + 7 ll. + 6 ll. + 36 ll. 8vo. 141/2 x 91/2 cm. Original calf binding worn, one of the two brass and leather clasps wanting. Some leaves at the beginning and end wanting: only a fragment of the first leaf remains.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1907.

Notes

The 'Buds of Experience' is apparently the work published in London in 1660 by T. Fawcet for E. Coles under the title of 'The perfect and experienced farrier'. It is mentioned by Sir Frederick Smith in his 'History of Veterinary Literature', Vol. I, p. 230, who calls it 'this illiterate work'.@$@'Christian Divinities' by Johann Wolleb [1536-1625] was translated from the Latin by Alexander Ross [1591-1654], and published in 1657.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 18743