Details

Subjects:

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Science -- Early works to 1800.
Science.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commonplace books.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Notes apparently transcribed from one of the abridgments of the Philosophical Transactions, including material by Halley, Boyle, and Hook, illustrated with pen and ink drawings and tables. Volume was apparently later used as an account book and as a scrapbook with newspaper clippings pasted in (most have been removed and leaves with accounts have been cut out). Printed table of weights and measures engraved by W. Chinnery, 1744, pasted in at end (f. 127v-inside lower cover).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 127; [1-127]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Two leaves cut out at beginning, 9 leaves cut out in the middle.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one leaf in a second hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in England, after 1772 (f. 41v).

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: Audley End House (according to bookseller, no mark in manuscript).
Sold by Roger Gaskell, 1999.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 782

Contributor:

Chinnery, William, 1708-1791.

OCLC:

212376117

Web link:

Unique at Penn blog post