Miscellaneous notes and papers
MS. Lister 39
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Miscellaneous notes and papers
Shelfmark
MS. Lister 39
Summary
Miscellaneous notes and papers by, relating to, or in the possession of Dr. Martin Lister, chiefly in Latin; many are extracts from, or abstracts of, printed works, such as the Philosophical Transactions. The chief pieces are:
(fol. 1) a manual of Christian faith in four divisions or twenty articles, with censures on them, all in French (about A.D. 1600);
(fol. 23) a title and preface (the latter never printed) to Lister's Letters and mixt Discourses (York, 1683);
(fol. 76) French notes on Celsus de Medicina, 1666-1667;
(fol. 218) a list of Dr. Lister's books sent to the Ashmolean Museum, fifteen in number;
(fol. 245) an imperfect list of coins;
(fol. 299) parts of an English translation of a Latin treatise on Preservatives from the Plague, especially on 'Zenexton', written in the second half of the 17th century, not by Lister: some of the original Latin appears to occur on fols. 334-51;
(fol. 421) Notes of plants observed by Lister in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire in the summer of 1666.
Date
written chiefly in the second half of the 17th century by M. Lister
Language
French
English
Latin
Multiple languages
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
464 Leaves
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Collection contents
Miscellaneous notes and papers
