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Commonplace book containing poems and medical recipes
Title
Commonplace book containing poems and medical recipes, 1704-[circa 1720].
Physical Description
1 v. (circa 100 p.) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Six manuscript notes laid in, including one describing a "very strange light" in the air.
Most of the volume is blank.
Contemporary index to recipes is at the end of the volume.
A modern annotated list of the poems is located in the bibliographic file.
Binding: contemporary full parchment.
In English, with a few short entries in Latin.
Provenance
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2009.
Summary
Manuscript volume with entries in several hands. There are twenty-one poems, many dated. Titles of lyrics include Epitaph on a Lady's Parrott; the Platonique Lover; Heaven, Translated from Hermannus Hugo; The Coquett; and To Ease My Troubled Mind. Satirical songs and ballads include Sir Willoughby Aston's Ballad; A New Ballad Occasion'd by a Late Edict of the the Pope; and The Coffee Women Turned Courtiers. In addition, the volume contains over two hundred recipes for medical waters, salves, cordials, elixirs and other treatments for conditions including kidney stones, scurvy, melancholy, and rabies. Some of the recipes are attributed to doctors or to female members of the Cotton, Glegg, and Lee families.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 14, 2010
References
Commonplace Book Containing Poems and Medical Recipes. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Commonplace Book Containing Poems and Medical Recipes. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Commonplace books.
Recipes.
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