[Commonplace book].

Abstract:

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).

Date:

1772

Identifier:

9927049773503681; (OCoLC)ocn212376117; (OCoLC)212376117; (PU)2704977-penndb-Voyager; (CStRLIN)PAUR99-A187

Language:

English

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[England], [after 1772]

Relation:

https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/14/

Subject:

Science.; Science -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine.; Codices.; Commonplace books.; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, European.; Manuscripts, English.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

127 leaves : paper, illustrations; 246 x 191 mm bound to 257 x 195 mm

Personal Name:

Chinnery, William, 1708-1791.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Origin: Written in England, after 1772 (f. 41v).; Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Binding: Contemporary parchment.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one leaf in a second hand.; 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.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 782