MS.MSL.112

John Zacharias Aktouarios, Medical Epitome 63 3, first part of 6, 4, 5.

England, London, ca.1732-63AD

Paper, folded in 2.; Watermarks: Pro Patria watermarks with GR countermarks similar to Gaudriault 314.1–2. Paper bears the same marks as MS_MSL_111; Material: mixed; 217ff( v + 217 + vii); dimensions: height 320mm, width 195mm

Anthony Askew(1722–74)London; his sale at G. Leigh and J. Sotheby London 15 March 1785 , lot 541. Purchased by James Sims (1741–1820)London, in 1785. Purchased by the London Medical Society in 1802. Purchased by the Wellcome Library in 1984.

Labels bound among the pages of MS_MSL_112 include handwritten notes from the scribe correcting errors he made whilst copying from MS_MSL_52

neatly written text

Thought to have been newly excecuted when Anthony Askew acquired it

Marks of ownership flyleaf IIrEx Bibliotheca Askeviana / Part ii. Art. 541 / J. Sims