Workdiary 23 ('A Continuation of C[hemical] Notes')
Content: Chymical recipes from the late
1660s, with additional notes and alterations by Boyle, some substantially
changing the nature of the recipes and giving them possible alchemical
significance
General Information
- Creation: 29 September-21 February, late 1660s
- Hands: Hand R (entries 1-13) Hand E (entries 14-29, 32-80) Robert Boyle (entries 30-31, title, occasional marginal endorsements, many significant alterations in entries)
- Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 25, pp. 71-4, 87-94
- Languages: English (80 entries)
- Length: 79 entries, unnumbered
- Format: A series of folded foolscap sheets,
not all still conjugate
- Note 1: This workdiary has been bound in Boyle Papers vol. 25
with workdiaries 34 and 35. We have distinguished these three workdiaries on the basis of handwriting.
This workdiary from the 1660s, written largely in Hand E, is on pp. 71-4, but is then interrupted by pages 75-86,
in Frederick Slare's and Warr's hands, who did not work for Boyle during the same time as Hand E.
These pages constitute Workdiary 35 from the 1680s. Workdiary 23 resumes on p. 87 to p. 94. Pp. 87-94, though, are badly
damaged. There is a large tear and various smaller holes at the bottom of the
folded foolscap sheet making up pp. 87-90 which render much of entries 28, 29,
35, 37, 38, 41, 48, 49, 50 illegible; much of the bottom of the folded foolscap sheet making
up pp. 91-4 has been torn off rendering many of these entries illegible, if not completely missing
(approximately the bottom fifth of pp. 93-4 is missing).