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Record 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, workmates)
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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6341, accessed: 25 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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