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Date(s)
- 1713-1845 [?] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 vol., c 303 x 197 x 27 mm. Loose paper cover. Printed map used as endpaper; 4 ff; ff. 1-3; pp. 14-19; ff. 20-89 (not including f. 33, as this is one of the 4 ff. bound in at the front); pp. 90-91; ff. 92-137 (ff. 113-114 removed and stubs only); ff. 150-156; 5 unnumbered ff.; ff. 138-149; printed map used as endpapers, with paper slip pasted onto verso of free endpaper). Loose slip between ff. 26-27.
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bequeathed to the Library by Walter William Rouse Ball, 1925.
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Scope and content
Two copies of printed map, 'Plan of the Town and Fortification of Montreal or Ville Marie in Canada' [London 1759?] used as endpapers at front and back. List of 'Books Lent to Mr Tempest', dated 7 Jan. 1816, on verso of front flyleaf. List of 'Books Lent to Mr Dardis 1804' on verso of following folio.
Alphabetical index of recipes at front of volume. f. 1 headed 'A Collection of Medicinal Receipts. 1713'; another heading, 'S. N. October the 2d 1713 Anno Domini' is on f. 79. The recipes are mostly in the same [18th century] hand, but additional recipes in at least three other hands have been added (on the verso of folios, or on additional sheets bound in, pasted in or loose). One of these, on f. 149v., is headed 'Extract from the Bristol Gazette, November 3rd 1825', showing that the book was used and added to for over 100 years.