Barret, Robert
- Date:
- 1660?
- Manuscripts
About this work
Description
The Buds of Experience. Shewing a most exact, easie and speedy way of Curing all Sorances and diseases incident to horses, written by Robert Barret of Esborne in Sussex ... Preceded by four anonymous religious meditations, etc. (13 ll.). A list of Fairs, mostly in Surrey (7 ll.). A Meditation taken out of the 'Compendious forme of Christian Divinitie' by John Wolleby [i.e. Johann Wolleb] (16 ll.).
Publication/Creation
1660?
Physical description
1 volume
13 leaves + 7 leaves + 6 leaves + 36 leaves 8vo. 141/2 x 91/2 cm. Original calf binding worn, one of the two brass and leather clasps wanting. Some leaves at the beginning and end wanting: only a fragment of the first leaf remains.
13 leaves + 7 leaves + 6 leaves + 36 leaves 8vo. 141/2 x 91/2 cm. Original calf binding worn, one of the two brass and leather clasps wanting. Some leaves at the beginning and end wanting: only a fragment of the first leaf remains.
Creator/production credits
Barret, Robert
Language note
In English.
Notes
The 'Buds of Experience' is apparently the work published in London in 1660 by T. Fawcet for E. Coles under the title of 'The perfect and experienced farrier'. It is mentioned by Sir Frederick Smith in his 'History of Veterinary Literature', Vol. I, p. 230, who calls it 'this illiterate work'.@$@'Christian Divinities' by Johann Wolleb [1536-1625] was translated from the Latin by Alexander Ross [1591-1654], and published in 1657.
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location of original
Wellcome Library; GB.
Location Status Access Closed storesMS.1070