Godfrey, Ambrose ( -1741)

Chemical and pharmaceutical notes, formulae, etc.: in English and Latin. Author's holograph MS. The spine is lettered 'Chemical and pharmaceutical formulary. Ambroise Godfrey'. On fol. 6v is the date, 1724; and on fol. 86r, the date 1733, but these appear to be later additions.

Early 18th century

1 volume 89 ff. + 12 ll. 4to. 20 × 161/2 cm. Original vellum binding, with modern re-backing. Fol. 25r has been torn out, and ff. 13v-16v are wanting. There is an unusual foliation, in which fol. 2v faces fol. 2r.

Purchased 1915.

The writer is Ambrose Godfrey who was assistant to Robert Boyle, and had a chemist's shop in Covent Garden. [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

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).