Common-place books-, Spanish: 18th cent.

Note-book containing extracts chiefly on astronomy and geography, with notes on painting, and mixing of colours, with a few medical receipts.

c. 1725

1 volume 28 ll. 8vo. 21 x 151/2 cm. Vellum covers from leaves of a 14th cent. service book, with decorated initials in blue and red. Illustrated with pen-drawings of astronomical diagrams and figures.

Purchased 1906.

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).