Grey, Elizabeth Countess of Kent (1581-1651)

  • Grey, Elizabeth Countess of Kent, 1581-1651
Date:
c. 1775
Reference:
MS.2630
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Grey, Elizabeth Countess of Kent (1581-1651). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Phisical receipts. Extracted from the 'Choice Manual of rare and select secrets in Physick and Chirurgery ...' An account of this author and her works is found in Ferguson's 'Bibliographical notes on histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets' Fourth Supplement, 1900, pp. 12-19, and in the Sixth Supplement, 1910, pp. 21-30. He thinks that the first edition was probably published in 1653.

Publication/Creation

c. 1775

Physical description

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 24 ll. + 2 bl. ll. 8vo. 181/2 × 111/2 cm. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Presented 1959.

Biographical note

Ferguson enters her under 'TALBOT (Elizabeth)': this was her maiden name before she married Henry Grey, eighth Earl of Kent.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation project. Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/204.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 305794