The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Lister MS 19
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford
Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Martin Lister (12 Apr 1639-2 Feb 1712) Annotation:While in France for three years studying medicine in Monpellier, starting in 1663, Lister kept a journal in an almanac titled Every Man’s Companion: Or, An useful Pocket-Book. The manuscript charts Lister's intellectual development as a physician and naturalist and his experience of a seventeenth-century grant tour.Other Links: http://listerstravels.modhist.ox.ac.uk/
Notes: Authored by Dr Anna Marie Roos, and funded by the British Academy. It is associated with the Cultures of Knowledge project at University of Oxford.