Lovell, Robert (1630?-1690)

Enchiridion botanicum. Nomen (tam Graece quam Latine) derivationem, tempus, genus, locum, temperiem, dosem, virtutem, usum, et antidotum (Una cum compositorum usu et virtute) simplicium in Pharmacopoeia Londinensis indicans. There are many added medical receipts and prescriptions by contemporary and later hands, in Latin, and the book seems to have belonged to a physician, or more probably, to an apothecary. On the first leaf is inscribed 'Edward Bradgate liber ejus ex dono Dr. Horne 1683'. Bradgate's name and the date 1694 has been cut into the outside of the lower cover. The latest date among the additions is 1712 (fol. 176v.). On fol. 227 is a note 'Finis [16]74'.

1674

1 volume 6 ll. + 257 pp. + 28 ll. 4to. 191/2 x 15 cm. Original calf binding damaged. Some margins frayed, ff. 161-164 slightly defective. Written in double column, with red rules: some headings in red.

Purchased 1919.

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).

This MS. is a copy of Lovell's work, first published at Oxford in 1659, under the title 'Pambstanslsgia', enchiridion botanicum [etc.]': a second edition appeared in 1665.