Bristow, Robert ( -1766)

  • Bristow, Robert, d.1766.
Date:
1741-1776
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MS.1357
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Bristow, Robert ( -1766). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of medical, veterinary, domestic, cookery, and other receipts: by several hands.

Publication/Creation

1741-1776

Physical description

1 volume 3 ll. last bl.. + 34 pp. + 62 ll. + 26 bl. ll. 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. Original stamped calf-gilt binding. Some leaves have been torn out. Text within red rules.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1913.

Biographical note

The original compiler's name is found on the first leaf. The date 1741 appears on p. 21, and 1776 on the penultimate leaf of text. He may be the Robert Bristow of Mitcheldeane [Glos.], recorded in Musgrave's 'Obituary', Vol. I, p. 262 as having died on December 10, 1776.

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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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  • 32242