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Expand 1 - Boyle Papers1 - Boyle Papers
Collapse 2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others
Expand 1 - Collection of alchemical tracts formerly owned by Sir Kenelm Digby.1 - Collection of alchemical tracts formerly owned by Sir Kenelm Digby.
2 - 'Excerpta made out of severall Authors. AD 1663': a commonplace book. Extracts from travel books, medical works and books on natural philosophy.
Expand 3 - Catalogue of John Warr's library and miscellaneous notes.3 - Catalogue of John Warr's library and miscellaneous notes.
4 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 1.
5 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 2.
6 - 'Clangor Buccinae: Le Son de Trompete ou du Clarion. Traicte excellent & admirable racceuilly d'une excripture fort ancienne: dicourant a tous philosophes fidellement & physicalement de la Pierre des Philosophes, Mis en francois par I. Fornier. 1573.
7 - Series of sermons on Phil. 4. 8.
8 - Medical commonplace book used by Boyle and Lady Ranelagh.
Expand 9 - MS 439 - MS 43
Expand 10 - Boyle's Geneva notebook.10 - Boyle's Geneva notebook.
11 - 'On the spirit of a Man' Theological treatise on text of 1 Thessalonians 5. 25.
12 - 'Enarratio methodica trium Geberi medicinarum in quibus continetur vera Lapidus Philosophici confectio'.
13 - George Starkey, Laboratory notebook.
14 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 1.
15 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 2.
Expand 16 - MS 18516 - MS 185
Expand 17 - MS 18617 - MS 186
Expand 18 - MS 18718 - MS 187
Expand 19 - MS 18819 - MS 188
Collapse 20 - MS 18920 - MS 189
1 - Address dated 'Sept 16 (89)'.
2 - Misc. notes, inc. on weights, addresses, 'Names of the Committee of the Council for Irish Affairs', and note on Henrician statute against multiplication of gold and silver.
3 - Copy of letter in French prophecying the Glorious Revolution.
4 - MS version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
5 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
6 - Excerpt from preface to experimental notes on flame and fire, apparently intended for unpublished 'Mechanical Origin of Flame'.
7 - Promise by Boyle's assistant not to divulge details of any experiments, processes etc. to anyone.
8 - Superseded version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
9 - Note on experiments with snake stones authorised by King and Queen.
10 - List of the contents of the 1680 de Tournes Geneva edition of Boyle's 'Works'.
11 - Part of Boyle's essay on parable medicines.
12 - MS version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
13 - MS version of further sequel to 1688 'Advertisement'.
14 - Methodological prescriptions for philosophers/naturalists.
15 - Notes on preserving bodies.
16 - Note on role of 'docimastick' or probatory experiments.
17 - Part of prefatory material to a natural philosophical treatise.
18 - List of phenomena.
19 - 'Heads belonging to the Essay of the Discernm[en]t of Suppositions'.
20 - Superseded version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
21 - Material on antidotes and concretions in animal bodies, etc.
22 - Key to abbreviations.
23 - Use of experimental to speculative philosophy.
24 - Discarded version of the preface to 'Medicinal Experiments'.
25 - 'The french parliaments blasphemous Inscription'.
26 - Discarded version of part of preface to 'Medicinal Experiments'.
27 - Preview of the four main topics for the whole of 'Christ. Virt., I, Appendix', in verse.
28 - Notes on types of experiments.
29 - List of titles for 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
30 - Key to abbreviations.
31 - 'Advertisement' concerning state of ensuing collection.
32 - 'An Abstract of the Chymicall Accompt booke from a Little before November the 1st 1689' (title and one line only).
33 - Introductory material on apologetic function of study of nature.
34 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
35 - Notes on parable medicines.
36 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
37 - Notes on poisons and how to distinguish them.
38 - Note of an address.
39 - Reason for lack of detail in accompanying text.
40 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
41 - Verses on contents of 14 subdivisions of Boyle's writings.
42 - Discarded version of the preface to 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
43 - Role of experiments for naturalists.
44 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
45 - Superseded version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
46 - Reasons for supplement to existing treatise
47 - Introduction to a discourse involving 'Philander' and a priest from a foreign country.
48 - MS version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
49 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
50 - List of nine of Boyle's works, with no indication of their date or significance.
51 - Notes on poisons and antidotes.
52 - Reasons for repeating experiments.
53 - Introductory note to experimental treatise.
54 - Notes on ambition.
55 - MS version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
56 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
57 - Guide to abbreviations.
58 - 'A prefatory advertisement about severall of Mr. Boyles writings'.
59 - List of properties of air, perhaps related to 'General History of Air'.
60 - List of experiments to try with blood, perhaps for second edition of 'Human Blood'.
61 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
62 - Material relating to 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
63 - List of categories of natural explanations.
64 - Material relating to 'General History of Air'.
65 - Preamble to collection of experiments on poisons and antidotes.
66 - Observations on spontaneous combustion, apparently intended for unpublished 'Mechanical Origin of Flame'.
67 - Things to consider regarding (i) air; (ii) God's works.
68 - Note on `Samuel Barnton a Shoemakers Son in Houndsditch fell into a ditch when he was 11 years of age whereupon he is grown no bigger of Statue being now 19.'
69 - 'A Continuation of loose notes &c. most of them set down to recall to minde fuller passages referable to them from Jan[ua]ry 25th' (title only).
70 - MS material relating to 'Christ. Virt., I, Appendix'.
71 - MS version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
Expand 21 - MS 19021 - MS 190
Expand 22 - MS 19122 - MS 191
Expand 23 - MS 19223 - MS 192
Expand 24 - MS 19324 - MS 193
Expand 25 - Miscellaneous chymical recipes and material concerning Boyle's accounts and landholdings [Workdiary 33].25 - Miscellaneous chymical recipes and material concerning Boyle's accounts and landholdings [Workdiary 33].
Expand 26 - MS 19526 - MS 195
Expand 27 - MS 19627 - MS 196
Expand 28 - MS 19728 - MS 197
Expand 29 - MS 19829 - MS 198
Expand 30 - MS 19930 - MS 199
Expand 31 - MS 20031 - MS 200
Expand 3 - The Boyle Letters3 - The Boyle Letters
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