Workdiary 27 (Chymical recipes and notes from the late
1660s)
Content: Chymical recipes, many of them
alchemical, aphorisms and notes contained in disbound pages from a small
notebook of the late 1660s
General Information
- Creation: late 1660s
- Hands: Robert Boyle (all entries)
- Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 44, fols. 43-9
- Languages: English (51 entries) Latin (2 entries)
- Length: 53 entries, unnumbered
- Format: The pages on which
the entries appear are small, of about duodecimo size, and appear to have
originally been bound together in some form. This is indicated by the presence
of two small holes vertically aligned in the left-hand margin of the now
separate sheets. These holes could have served to help tie or bind the folios
together. The last folio, fol. 49, is itself folded vertically in half and
entries written down both of the halves thus formed. The entries are written in
a variety of dark ink, faded ink or very faint pencil. Those in light pencil
have defied complete decipherment. We have reproduced those entries and
sections of entries we can successfully read and have indicated in the
editorial notes to each entry what words we can read of the surrounding pencil
entries. Lawrence Principe has generously provided us with his own
transcription of fols. 46-7 for our use in this transcription.