Manuscript in at least two hands containing 7 medical charms and 25 medical receipts. There are treatments for worms, sore throats, ague and fever, hornet stings, snake bites, whooping cough, scurvy and rashes, as well as a recipe for opodeldoc. The charms include "a charm for standing of the blood" and "a charm against festering." Accompanied by a modern manuscript transcript and research notes.
Description:
Additional information located in the bibliographical file., Binding: original parchment, wallet style; remains of brass clasp., From the collection of Anne Mortimer Young. Purchased from Andrew Hunter Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006., and In English.
Subject (Name):
Young, Anne Mortimer--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Charms--England, Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, and Recipes--Great Britain
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 baldness, dropsy, the bloody flux, sores, and plague. There are also several multi-purpose elixirs attributed to "Doctor Hawse" and Sir Walter Raleigh, as well as a recipe for "Laudanum Paracelsi" and several chemical preparations intended to regulate and balance the humors. Other contents include chemical formulas for various compounds and salts, including "sal naturae" and "sal ammoniak" and household recipes for varnish, ink, colored oils, cement, bronzing and gilding pigment, and marbled paper. Paston uses the standard alchemical symbols for metals and gives precise ingredient quantities, both by weight and in ratios. and Pages 73-83 contain cookery and household recipes in an eighteenth-century copperplate hand, presumably that of Anna Rogers. Some recipes attributed to publications dated 1770-1777.
Description:
Almost entirely in English; several recipes in Latin., Binding: in the style of Queens' Binder A (William Nott). Contemporary full red morocco, elaborately gilt in an all-over design incorporating drawer-handle tools, floral motifs and flower tools, framed in a repeating ornamental border. Seven-compartment gilt spine; coroneted monogram "RR" (Robert and Rebecca Paston) in the third compartment. Marbled endpapers., Blank pages not digitized., Ex libris Anna Rogers. Purchased from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller on the Hazel M. Osborn Fund and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2014., Ownership stamp of Anna Rogers, in red ink, appears on verso of front endpaper and verso of second blank page. "April 6 1765" written below the second stamp in an unidentified hand., 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 medical and alchemical writings of Paracelsus. He sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1673, first for Thetford and then for Castle Rising. Created Baron Paston, Viscount Yarmouth in 1673 and Earl of Yarmouth three years later, Paston served as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1676 until his death. He married Rebecca Clayton (died 1694), daughter of the London merchant Sir Jasper Clayton, in 1650; the couple had ten children. Paston died, deeply in debt, at Oxnead Hall in 1683, and was succeeded by his second son, William Paston (1654-1732)., Volume opens with unpaginated 6 p. index of recipes and a list of "characters and valew of medicinall weights;" rest of volume is paginated 1-256. Pages after p. 83 are blank., and Watermark: coat of arms not in Heawood; similar to Heawood Coat of Arms 348.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century
Subject (Name):
Nott, William, binder, Paracelsus,--1493-1541--Influence, Rogers, Anna,--active 1770-1777--Stamp, Yarmouth, Robert Paston,--Earl of,--1631-1683, and Yarmouth, Robert Paston,--Earl of,--1631-1683--Binding
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Chemistry--Early works to 1800, Cooking, English--Early works to 1800, Health--Early works to 1800, Iatrophysical school, Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800, Medicine--Early works to 1800, Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Recipes--Great Britain, Traditional medicine--Great Britain--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800, and Workshop recipes--Early works to 1800
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of notes on primarily biological, scientific, mathematical, and historical subjects, as well as recipes and humorous anecdotes and verses. The volume begins with notes on parrots, crocodiles, the oxfly, parallel rulers, the concept of proportion, and Niagara Falls, followed by a collection of tables of coins and their worth in cities and countries around the world, including England, Ireland, Flanders, Hamburg, Russia, Portugal, Persia, Japan, and Morocco. The volume also contains a list of symbols for chemicals; diagrammatic drawings of ovals, elipses, arches, and squares; humorous epigrams, anecdotes, epitaphs, and riddles; and several entries in shorthand; as well as historical notes on Catherine of Russia, Ostend; Brussels; and St. Petersburg. The last section of the volume is composed primarily of household and veterinarian recipes, including one to cure scabs in sheep; blacking for harnesses; to destroy fleas in dogs; and to cure foul water in cows. A recipe for stuffing birds is annotated, "Best. See my scrap book given by Mr Ashew a stuffer of birds." and The volume also contains several pen drawings, including one to illustrate a mite and another to illustrate parallel rulers.
Description:
Binding: contemporary vellum. Written on cover: William Henry Wayne. Gift of ALS 19 August 1800 Cavendish Bridge., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Partial index at beginning of manuscript., Pasted inside front cover: dealer's description of manuscript., and Pasted inside front cover: receipt dated 1792.
Subject (Geographic):
Russia--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796 and Wayne, William Henry
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Great Britain--19th century, Chemistry--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Coins, English poetry--19th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Mathematics--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Recipes--Great Britain, and Veterinary medicine
Autograph manuscript of a collection of didactic material. The manuscript begins with specimens of calligraphy, labeled Courte hande, Chancerie hande, Secretarie hande, cloven hande, curled hand, chayned hand, and Roman hande, as well as examples of writing in reverse and recipes for making ink, red wax, and white letters on black paper. This section is followed by arithmetic tables; measurements and conversions for dry goods as well as salmon, eels, wine, and oil; a sample genealogical chart drawn as a tree; instructions on how to use counters for counting; and a chart of the names of English kings and the years of their reigns up to James I, dated 1607. The bulk of the collection, however, consists of several hundred Latin proverbs on such topics as error, excellence, faith, honor, and ingratitude, followed by English proverbs and admonitions, and then several English proverbs translated into Latin. This section includes excerpts from King James' Basilikon Doron and How to live and that well by William Perkins. These proverbs are followed by "prettie and necessary rules for such as use to deale in merchandize, easy to be had in memorye," and, at the end of the manuscript, genealogical information for the Hill family, beginning in 1568.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Hill family, James I, King of England, 1566-1625, and Perkins, William, 1558-1602
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Calligraphy --England, Children--Conduct of life, English poetry --17th century, Genealogy--England, Proverbs, English, Proverbs, Latin, Recipes--Great Britain, and Weights and measures--England
