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Title

Mr. John Northing's book.

Authors

• Northing, John

Call number

Ms. Codex 2068
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977782947203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1280273249
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3js9ht7n

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1796-1856

Place

Upton

Summary

English commonplace book written from both ends. From one end (f. 1r-26r) the book includes penmanship exercises, a number of medical and veterinary recipes (or 'receipts'), and other household preparations such as blacking; the names and baptism dates of the children of Thomas and Alce Northing, probably including the writer (f. 15v-16r); and notes on local towns and curiosities (f. 21v-24r). The pages starting from the other end (f. 26v-109v, starting from the end) feature numerous technical illustrations and instructions for looms and cording patterns for weaving woolen textiles such as coverlets, carpets, and other textiles, with names and locations of clients (f. 63v-109v); and 107 numbered medical and veterinary recipes (f. 26v-58v), with a table of contents (f. 60v-63r). A list of books owned includes the General dispensatory, the Universal letter-writer, the Arminian (Methodist) and Spectator magazines, two Bibles, and a number of devotional books (f. 30r-30v). Notes from the 1840s and 1850s were added later in blank spaces on pages with earlier content.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from note pasted to title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

109 leaves : 190 x 160 mm bound to 197 x 170 mm +

Foliation

Paper, 109; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 18th-century) vellum; "John Northing Upton Near ... in the year 1806" written on one cover in faded ink.

Script

Written in cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers (London), 2020.
   
• Offered for sale at auction by Hansons (Stafford, England), 9 October 2019, lot 1141.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Veterinary prescriptions
• Woolen and worsted weaving
• Lincolnshire (England)--History--Sources

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• commonplace books
• diagrams
• prescriptions
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century

Keywords

• 18th century
• 19th century
• English
• England
• Paper
• Diagrams
• Science -- Medicine

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