Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Thomas Nevell's day book

Authors

• Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797
• Nicholson, Rebecca B

Other related names

• Wetherill, Samuel, 1736-1816, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1049
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940083673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155930768
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4008367

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1762-1785

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Financial records of Thomas Nevil, also known as Thomas Nevell, including expenses and payments received, mostly between 1762 and 1776. The end of the book contains recipes for the medical preparations of a Dr. Weed, signed over to Samuel Wetherill by Rebecca B. (Reed) Nicholson, written between 1795 and 1801.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Forms part of the Wetherill Papers.
   

Extent

222 leaves : 316 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, 222 leaves; ii, 1-200, [201-203], 204, 204, 205, 205, 206, 206, [207]; f. 107-196 blank; f. 197-222 contain records and recipes, with some pages of recipes marked with inconsistent contemporary foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather with blind stamping and label on front pastedown reading "Sold by David Hall at the New Printing-Office, in Market-street, Philadelphia"; in extremely poor and fragile condition. Covers are detached; all text pages at beginning and end have been disbound and encapsulated; blank pages are still in a sewn block.

Layout

All pages (including blank ones) ruled vertically by hand in red ink for columns for figures.

Provenance

• Gift, as part of the Wetherill Papers, of Proctor and Reeves Wetherill to the Industrial Research Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1937.
   
• Transferred, as part of the Wetherill Papers, to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Architecture, American--18th century
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Account books
• Financial records
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

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