Includes several medicines for the plague, a treatise on shortness of breath by Richard Blundell and one on the preservation of the eyesight by Walter Bailye, New Year 1586/87, printed 1586. Also includes a letter from William Pitt to John Pitt (p. 45, cataloged separately).
Note
Bound together with an index ca. 1750. This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Publications about material
To sleep, perchance to dream : a commonplace book / [edited by] Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, with Steven Galbraith and Heather Wolfe. Washington, DC : Folger Shakespeare Library, c2009.
Provenance
Walter Sneyd MS.
Exhibited
Exhibited: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, curated by Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, Folger Shakespeare Library, February 19-May 30, 2009. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. Decoding the Renaissance. November 11, 2014 to February 26, 2015. Open to p. 14-15.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 294.1