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

Title

Commonplace book

Authors

• Chinnery, William, 1708-1791

Call number

Ms. Codex 782
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9927049773503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2704977

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

after 1772

Place

England

Summary

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).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

127 leaves : 246 x 191 mm. bound to 257 x 195 mm

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with one leaf in a second hand.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Science--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commonplace books
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Diagram, f. 1r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 17v — Diagram, f. 17v
• fol. 39r — Diagram, f. 39r
• fol. 39r — Table, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Diagram, f. 39v
• fol. 127v — Table, f. 127v
• Inside back cover — Table, Inside back cover