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(MEDICAL RECIPE AND COMMONPLACE BOOK.) Manuscript in English with passages in French, Latin, and Italian on paper, densely written in neat cursive hand in brown ink. 190 (of 194) leaves, plus several leaves of writing in same hand laid in; lacks leaves 16, 17, 18, and 179. 200x143 mm, contemporary stiff wrappers with wrap-around rear cover, soiled and stained; contents generally clean, first leaf loose. Np, 18th century
Compilation of remedies for a range of complaints along with scattered culinary and household recipes and notes on dietetics and epidemiology. These are interspersed with digressions on trade and other subjects; excerpts from Voltaire's Letters concerning the English Nation, Decker's Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade, Baron von Pöllnitz's Mémoires, and Brookes's General Practice of Physic; items copied from the English press; and miscellaneous economic and demographic statistics. The manuscript ends with a Liste des Pairs Catholiques Romains dans l'Angleterre followed by random partly personal notes: "The English Benedictine I knew at ye English convent in Paris, rue de S. Jacques, is nam'd Placid Naylor. The Prior's name was Walmsby, a very learned Mathematician . . . My Schoolfellow Mr. Hubbock is Rector of ye Holy Trinity in Dorchester" [etc.].
