Workdiary 13 ('Promiscuous Observations begun the 24th of September 1655')

Content: Medical and chymical recipes from September-December 1655; sources include Sir Kenelm Digby, William How, Richard Farrar, Francis Prujean, and many others

General Information

• Creation: September-December 1655
• Hands: Hand P (all entries, except entry 10) Robert Boyle (entry 10, additions and alterations to other entries)
• Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 25, pp. 153-6, 177-84
• Languages: English (40 entries) Latin (2 entries)
• Length: 42 entries, 41 of which are numbered
• Format: Foolscap sheets were folded to make three sets of four sides, on which the entries were recorded. These sheets were then folded again, the first and third (i.e. pp. 153-6, 181-4) once vertically and twice horizontally (in thirds), the second (pp. 177-80) once vertically and once horizontally (in half). The last side of the third sheet, p. 184, is blank. Pages 5, 9, 10 and 11 have original pagination.