Workdiary 15 ('Philosophicall Collections begun the 12th of
September 1656')
Content: Medical and chymical recipes in
English from September 1656 to June 1657; sources and informants of recipes are
not noted
General Information
- Creation: 1656-7
- Hands: Hand P (entries 1-12) uncertain hand, perhaps 1650s hand (entries 13-64) Robert Boyle (additions and alterations to entries)
- Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 25, pp. 173-6, 165-72; Boyle Papers
26, fols. 96-9
- Languages: English (64 entries)
- Length: 64 entries, 61 of which are
numbered
- Format: Foolscap sheets
folded to make five sets of four sides on which the entries were recorded; the
sheets were then folded again, once vertically and twice horizontally (in
thirds). The folded sheets which make up this workdiary were arranged in a
jumbled order when bound in the Boyle Papers. It begins on BP 25, p. 173 and
continues to p. 176 (one sheet), at which point it goes back to p. 165 and
continues to p. 172 (two sheets). From there it continues on folios 96-9 of
Boyle Papers 26 (two sheets). We have presented the entries in their proper
order. Pp. 4-19 have their original pagination. The original p.10 follows p.11, in that it is written on
the inner recto of a folded sheet, with p.11 on the facing verso; the last side
is not paginated. Also entries, 31 and 32 are accidentally duplicated. We have
given the second pair the editorial numbers 31a and 32a to avoid confusion.