Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the...
Description:
In English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549., Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574., and Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?
Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing 72 pages of medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas. Contents include many medical recipes, such as traditional herbal washes, broths, salves, oils and pills for specific ailments, including bald...
Description:
Robert Paston, first Earl of Yarmouth (1631-1683), English politician, collector of art, books, and curios, and scientist. One of the Original Fellows of the Royal Society, he conducted alchemical experiments with Thomas Henshaw and studied the medica...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Paracelsus, 1493-1541 and Yarmouth, Robert Paston, Earl of, 1631-1683.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Alchemy, Chemistry, Cooking, English, Health, Iatrophysical school, Medicine, Medicine, Popular, Recipes, Traditional medicine, Workshop recipes, Early works to 1800, and Intellectual life
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treati...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Subject (Topic):
Dueling, English drama, English poetry, Medicine, Medicine, Popular, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sermons, English, Politics and government, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 73 entries, including prayers, poems on primarily romantic subjects, and culinary and medicinal recipes for such items as "orange water the Countess of Desmonds way"; black pudding; "to m...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Feilding (Fielding) family.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Embroidery, English poetry, Elegiac poetry, English, Medicine, Popular, Medicine, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Women authors, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
