Griffin, Charles

EFHMERIS DIHNEKHS or a Perpetual Almanack. Being a work furnished with all delectable varieties suitable to the title: And compendiously adapted for all succeeding generations, within the compasse of the Monarchical Region and neerest adjuncts of Great Britane: Composed according to the Iulian style or method, the only account formerly & now embraced by the inhabitants of the flourishing British territories. By Charles Griffin. The dedication us to Daniel Colwall [ -1690], Treasurer to the Royal Society. The date is found on p. 3, line 16 'in the yeere 1678'.

c. 1678

1 volume 2 ll. (first 2 bl.). + 121 pp. + 5 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 171/2 × 11 cm. Original calf binding worn. Two brass clasps defective. The folding dedication is slightly damaged. Title in red and black, headings in red.

Purchased 1932.

No record has been found of the author or of this work, which seems to have been the copy prepared for publication.

Greek symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.

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).