Workdiary 16 ('My Private Philosophicall Diary Begun this First of Jan. 1656/7')

Content: Medical and chymical recipes in English from January 1657; sources and informants of recipes are not noted

General Information

• Creation: 1-8 January 1657
• Hands: Hand P (all entries) Robert Boyle (one addition in entry 10)
• Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 25, pp. 161-4
• Languages: English (15 entries)
• Length: 15 entries, numbered
• Format: Foolscap sheet folded to form four sides on which the entries were recorded; this sheet was then folded again once vertically and twice horizontally (into thirds). Original pagination 1-4. The pages are in the order 1, 3, 2, 4 :i.e., p.2 is written on the inner recto of a folded sheet, with p.3 on the facing verso. We have presented our transcription of the entries in that order.