Common-Place Books, 17th/18th cent.

Historical commonplace book by several hands, containing some entries of medical or scientific interest. The latest date is 1711 (p. 56), and it seems to have been begun in 1697, as many of the first entries on various topics are under that date.

1697-1711

1 volume 395 pp. + 2 ll. last bl.. folio. 351/2 x 23 cm. Original calf binding, worn. Text within red rules.

Purchased 1928.

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).