Download or read book The Early Modern English Version of Elizabeth Jacob’s Physicall and Chyrurgical Receipts written by Miriam Criado-Peña and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a semi-diplomatic transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts (MS Wellcome 3009 (ff. 17r-90r)), an Early Modern English remedy-book housed in the Wellcome Library, London, and hitherto unedited. The edition is accompanied by a linguistic analysis of the text, together with a palaeographic and a codicological study of the volume. As such, this book conforms itself as a primary source for research in historical linguistics and other related fields such as the history of medicine and ecdotics.