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Record Number: 6341


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is a component of part of all animals' marked by three horizontal lines; p.77 next to the text 'This arrangement is a very excellent one; but several reasons incude nme to adopt another...' is the ms note 'Saline aliment'.

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

Between 1843 and 1880

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anon

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Jonathan Pereira

Title:

Treatise on food and diet, A

Genre:

Medicine

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1843

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

6341

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Pereira, Jonathan, "A treatise on food and diet; with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal metropolitan and other establishments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick. etc. (London, 1843), various pages, [DH LIB 1591]. ,

Citation:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Pereira, Jonathan, "A treatise on food and diet; with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal metropolitan and other establishments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick. etc. (London, 1843), various pages, [DH LIB 1591]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6341, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

The item has no provenance but the likely date of annotation is between 1843 and the mid 1870s when the family died out.

   
   
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