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Medical commonplace book

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8449

Scope and Contents

A medical commonplace book with prescriptions at one end, many of which are ascribed to authors, and extracts from medical writers at the other, including passages from Dr Harvey's Anatomical exercises of the motion of the heart. The volume is inscribed on the flyleaf 'Wye. March the 14th 1652/3'.

Dates

  • Creation: 1653 (Circa)

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 collection

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The book was formerly part of the library of Dr H.P. Bayon. Received from the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1982.

Bibliography

The collection is no. 17 in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca bibliographici (London, 1964), p. 4.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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