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Harley MS 792
- Record Id:
- 040-002046621
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046621
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00012a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 792
- Title:
- Dr Roger Wolverton of Ipswich, Medical defence of blood letting in pregnancy
- Scope & Content:
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Draft rejoinder of Dr Roger Wolverton of Ipswich to Dr Short, of Bury St Edmunds, concerning the safety and benefit of blood letting in pregnancy, and his prescription of blood letting in the case of Mrs Browne of Stowmarket, Suffolk. Signed R. Wolverton, 9 March 1654.
f. 1: Note in English by Roger Wolverton, explaining the rough character of the document: 'The foule Copy of my Reioinder to Dr Short of Bury St Edmunds concerning Mrs Brown then of Stowmarket, sent about the latter end of February 1654 [etc.]'. Dated 13 October 1663.
f. 2: Title in Latin: 'R. Wolvertoni Gippovicensis D. Medici, Assertio Medica, de Phlebotomia Puerperarum, Qua plane ac perspicue, tam ratione, quam authoritate et experientia comprobatur, quod aliquae mulieres gravidae sub quibusdam conditionibus, non modo tuto ac utiliter phlebotmizari possint ; sed etiam aliquando debeant, ad abortum praecavendum, &c. Ad clarissimum, nec non celeberrimum quendam Medic. Doctorem Brederodensem … Contra ejusdem Doctoris opinionem, et sententiam Hipp[ocratis], Lib v. Aphor. 31. atque Galeni rationem in loc. cit. Comment. ab eodem allatam; quibus oppugnare conabatur dicti Rogeri praescriptionem sub manu concessam, circa Phlebotomiam cujusdam nobilis Matronae, uterum gerentis [etc.]'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046621 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 792 : Dr Roger Wolverton of Ipswich, Medical defence of blood letting in pregnancy - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0792]/040-002046621
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1654
- End Date:
- 1654
- Date Range:
- 1654
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 200 mm.
Foliation: 29 folios; 2 unnumbered stubs of written folios at end.
Binding: British Museum half leather on marbled paper covered boards.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
Former owner: Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1688), Bishop of Worcester.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 792.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)