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Pye, Quintin, fl. 1640s (physician)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1601 - 1680

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

 Fonds

Quintin Pye: 'Booke of Choise Secrets'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10417
Scope and Contents

A volume of recipes and procedures, principally medical but including others relating to dyes and inks, compiled by Quintin Pye. Folio *a is headed ‘this is a booke of choise secrets. A proovid by me often. q p’. Folio 5 is headed ‘Chiefe Receits of Quintin Pye’. There are references to named patients, and recoords of applications of remedies dated 1641 and 1645. Folios 57-60 contain an index (‘The Table’).

Dates: Mid seventeenth century