Catalogus horti botanici Oxoniensis, by Philip Stephens, William Brown, Jacob Bobart (second edition 1658), interleaved with copious manuscript receipts
- Stephens, Philip (c.1620-1679)
- Date:
- 1658-c.1730
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- MS.8753
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The compiler (or compilers; the manuscript is chiefly in the same hand but at least one other hand can be identified) of manuscript additions has not been identified, however it is possible to learn quite a lot about him from the entries. He appears to have been a practitioner of medicine, although probably not a qualified doctor, as he details a number of cures which he has effected and reports many more at second hand. Many recipes have been proved by the writer. Some recipes are from printed sources, such as Alexis of Piedmont, Salmon, Digby, 'the learned Boyle', George Bates, Daniel Turner. Turner's The art of surgery... illustrated with many ... cases medico-chirurgical did not appear until 1722, but the preponderance of 17th century authorities, combined with the writer's 'astrological' predilictions (precise times when herbs should be picked in accordance with the phases of the moon, etc.) mark him out as a true Culpeperian. The annotations probably began not so long after the book was published and contined over several decades. The pagination is broken up by the interleavings and some pages are repeated; some pages do not have numbers printed on them.
(Source utilized in the above description: Blackwell Rare Books sale catalogue).
A digitised version of Catalogus horti botanici Oxoniensis, 1658, can be viewed on the electronic resource Early English Books Online.
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- 1780