Bruer, Edward

Medical common-place book with receipts for preserves and cookery, extracts from medical authors, etc.: in Latin and English, by various hands. The name 'Edward Bruer' appears on the first leaf, and he was possibly the original compiler of the MS. There are additions by later hands, but most of the entries were probably made in the first half of the 17th cent. Among these may be mentioned 'Ex Razae libello de peste': [Bright (T.)] 'Hygieina: sive de sanitate tuenda': 'Ex Caspare Bauhino de lapide Bezoar': 'Taken out of a little booke of dyett intituled 'The Newlander's cure', written by Sir William Vaughan Knight, 1630': 'Ex spagyrica Microcosmi Danielis Beckheri Dantiscani': and from 'A Closer for Ladies and Gentlewomen' under the title of 'The Art of preservinge, conservinge, candyinge, pastinge, etc., as it is now in use amongst the best experienced Ladyes and Gentlewomen'. A third edition of this last work appeared in 1630.

c. 1630

1 volume 186 ll. 8vo. 15 1/2 x 10 cm. Original stamped leather binding, worn.

Purchased 1910.

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).