Medical notebook, entitled 'Adversaria physica 1660', 'Adversaria 5', 1660-1704
Medical notebook, entitled 'Adversaria physica 1660', 'Adversaria 5', with entries to 1704, containing mainly prescriptions, with notes on and extracts from medical works, some entries not in Locke's hand, and (pp. 466-531) Locke's 'Register of the air', a weather diary with hygroscope, thermometer and barometer readings, kept at Oxford and London, intermittently from June 1666 to June 1683, and at Oates, Essex, consistently from Dec. 1691 to May 1703.
544 pages, 327-470 blank.
Dates
- Creation: 1660-1704
Extent
544 pages
Language of Materials
- English
Conditions Governing Access
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Shelfmark
MS. Locke d. 9
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, no. 48120.
Physical Facet
Blind-stamped calf, rebacked
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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