| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him down throw & take out all his/entrall, cutt him in quarters & bruise/ him in a morter, put him in an ordinary/ still wth [sic] a botle [?] of sarke, & a quart of/ ... kow's milk ...' |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Andrew Greirson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| 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, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Nicholas Culpeper |
| Title: | Pharmacopoeia Londinensis |
| Genre: | Medicine |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Sixt. edition, London: Printed by Peter Cole, printer and book-seller, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1659 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 6335 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Culpeper, Nicholas, "Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows, now living of the said colledg. In this sixt edition you may find, 1 Three hundred useful additions. 2 All the notes that were in the margent are brought into the book between two such crotchets at these [ ] 3 On the top of the pages of this impression is printed, the sixt edition, much enlarged. 4 The vertues, qualities, and properties of every simple. 5 The vertues and use of the compounds. 6 Cautions in giving al [sic] medicines that are dangerous. 7 All rhe [sic] medicines that were in the old Latin dispensatory, and are left out in the new Latin one, are printed in this sixt impression in English, with their vertues. 8 A key to Galen's Method of physick, containing thirty three chapters. 9 In every page two columns. 10 In this impression, the Latin name of every one of the compounds is printed, and in what page of the new folio Latin book they are to be found. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrology", (London, 1659), binding pages [DH LIB 1777]., |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Culpeper, Nicholas, "Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows, now living of the said colledg. In this sixt edition you may find, 1 Three hundred useful additions. 2 All the notes that were in the margent are brought into the book between two such crotchets at these [ ] 3 On the top of the pages of this impression is printed, the sixt edition, much enlarged. 4 The vertues, qualities, and properties of every simple. 5 The vertues and use of the compounds. 6 Cautions in giving al [sic] medicines that are dangerous. 7 All rhe [sic] medicines that were in the old Latin dispensatory, and are left out in the new Latin one, are printed in this sixt impression in English, with their vertues. 8 A key to Galen's Method of physick, containing thirty three chapters. 9 In every page two columns. 10 In this impression, the Latin name of every one of the compounds is printed, and in what page of the new folio Latin book they are to be found. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrology", (London, 1659), binding pages [DH LIB 1777]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6335, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
| The item has no Erskine provenance. The identity of the reader, given the style of the annotations, appears to be the first owner. The date at which the item came into Erskine hands is not known. |
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