Arcana Fairfaxiana manuscripta : a manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and housewifery nearly three centuries old / used, and partly written by the Fairfax family. Reproduced in fac-simile of the handwritings ; an introduction by George Weddell.

Date:
1890
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Credit: Arcana Fairfaxiana manuscripta : a manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and housewifery nearly three centuries old / used, and partly written by the Fairfax family. Reproduced in fac-simile of the handwritings ; an introduction by George Weddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    supposed to have been written about the middle of the 17th century; but the writing is more characteristic of an earlier part of the century, and was probably done by someone past middle life. A specimen of it may be seen fac-similed in “ Bishop Percy’s Folio Ballads and Romances,” published by Trubner and Co., in 1867. Careful comparison of this will show that the letters f, g, h, k, s, t, also st, and th, are generally of a more modern character than those of the examples in this book. A hand almost exactly similar to that on page 3 of the “ Arcana ” is found in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 30,305, fol. 19. It was written by Thomas Wynter, in 1606, and consists of “A Collection of the Earll of Northumberland] his cause, on his alleged complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.”