[Commonplace book]

Name:

Chinnery, William, 1708-1791

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1772

Description:

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).

Language:

English

Provenance:

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

Relation:

Unique at Penn blog post: https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/14/

Subject:

Science -- Early works to 1800; Science; Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Medicine

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); commonplace books; drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 782