Medical recipes and pedigrees

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21251B [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004937191
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1619-[c. 1634]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • 137 ff. (old foliation 1-157, with errors; ff. 3 verso-5, 6-8, 30, 33, 35, 58 verso, 60 verso-118 verso blank) ; 195 x 140 mm.
      Original brown leather binding with double blind fillets; lozenge-shaped piece of leather with gilt-tooled design pasted on each of the covers.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)
      DE/SOUTH SA/OPEN SHELVES

Scope and Content

A volume of medicinal recipes and pedigrees written, 1619-[c. 1634], by Richard Salusbury, probably the descendant of Dean Ffowlk Salusbury of St Asaph whose pedigree occurs on ff. 29 verso, 30 verso-31. Except for notes on the inside of the front cover, ff. 58, 59, 119, 126 verso, 128, and the pedigree on ff. 59 verso-60, the hand is that of Richard Salusbury throughout.

Access Information

Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.

Note

Watermark is a pot with initials P.O., similar to Churchill no. 460 (French, c. 1611).

Drawings and designs are to be found on ff. 1, 8 verso, 33-4, 51, 57, 128 verso-37 verso. Decorated initial Letter on f 9. Margins ruled on ff. 9-16, 18 verso, 19 verso-20, 22 verso-25 verso, 59 verso-60.

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21251B [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

Other Finding Aids

A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in NLW, Catalogue of Mostyn MSS Purchased in 1974 (1975), pp.144-147, available at the Library.

Alternative Form Available

Available on microfilm at the Library.

Custodial History

Note in different seventeenth-century hand to the main hand of MS: 'Md that I Rice Pugh borowed of Rich: Salusbury the loane of Veronius de vitis apostolorum [&] Bulingere [in iudes?]' (inside front cover). The note on f. 58, later-seventeenth century, may record payment of a parish rate in Conway, which is close to Gloddaeth. Does not appear in any catalogue. Lot 1495 in the Mostyn sale at Christie’s, 24 Oct. 1974.

Additional Information

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