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Sloane MS 359
- Record Id:
- 040-002112705
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000547.0x000043
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163173520.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 359
- Title:
- Chemical recipes
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of chemical recipes, in the hand of Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), courtier, military and naval commander and author. Including accounts of experiments, and details of Raleigh’s ‘great Cordiall’.
f. 1v: Table of contents.
f. 2r-2v: Chemical notes, with a table of symbols.
ff. 3a, 11a, 12a-12g, 17a-c, 18a, 28a-b, 43a: Blank.
f. 3r-54r: Chemical and medical recipes, with illustrations of distillation equipment (ff. 9v- 54r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002112705 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 359 : Chemical recipes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0368]/040-002112705
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163173520.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1570
- End Date:
- 1620
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper, parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 145 mm.
Foliation: ff. vi + 54.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum. With original vellum binding (ff. 1, 54).
Script: Secretary hand of Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), courtier, military and naval commander and author: former owner.
Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698), apothecary and physician: former owner.
- Publications:
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Ayscough, Samuel, ed. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: John Rivington, 1782), vol. 2, p. 492.
Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae (Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 359.
‘Sloane MS 359’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-sloane.html [cached copy accessed 2 December 2019].
Lefranc, Pierre, Sir Walter Raleigh écrivain: l’œuvre et les idées (Paris: A. Colin, 1968), p. 682.
Oakshott, Walter, ‘Carew Ralegh’s Copy of Spenser’, The Library, 5th series, 26 (1971), 1-21.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)