| Description | Manuscript volume, c1600. Primarily a recipe (receipt) book, it is titled "Medicynes for the heade, for the eares, for the eyes, etc", with the signature Joseph Carlton, possibly the author, three times on the front free endpaper. The recipes are arranged according to the part of the body for which they were to be used. Includes a table of headings, several of which in fact have no entries under them. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |