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Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Dates:
1783-1828.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Item
Identifier: MS.24779
Dates:
1840-1854.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
Dates:
1818-1827.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.
File
Identifier: Acc.8862
Scope and Contents
With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.