Oliver, Joseph (fl. 1810)

Collection of short religious homilies, notes on English voyagers, geography, astronomy and astrology, etc. Compiler's holograph MS. Illustrated with a pen-drawing of a 'Plantain tree', 6 astronomical figures, and two rough outlines of an 'Astrological Man'. On the verso of the last leaf of No. 7 is a note by another hand: 'First part of this MS. was first wrote by Joseph Oliver, Clark of Flash Church Staffordshire. Baught at Chester June 25th and 26th 1851 by MB and [?] JO.'

c.1800-1810

8 parts. 4to. 19th cent. half-calf binding.

Phillipps MS. 25489 (In pencil 25489 & 20429).

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).