Plague in London, 1665: account, possibly forged

“De Meo ipsius vivendi Modus [sic] in Tempore Pestis [1665]”. Transcript of the original Latin with an English translation. This is stated to have been ‘copied from a MS. written on the blank leaves at the end of a copy of the 1642 Amsterdam edition of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius, with Thomas Farnaby’s notes. It is by a Physician, and was probably written during the Plague in London in 1665.’ The present locality of the MS. is not known, and the Latinity of the title seems dubious. Signed on the verso of the last leaf: ‘C. Bompas. 12 Westbourne Terrace. [London] W.2’, who is presumably the writer.

c.1920

8 ll. folio. 32 x 201/2 cm

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).