Medical commonplace book

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.8449
  • Dates of Creation
      1653 (Circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 collection

Scope and Content

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'.

Access Information

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).

Acquisition Information

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

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Bibliography

The collection is no. 17 in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca bibliographici (London, 1964), p. 4.