“Conteyning divers Excellent & Approoved Remedies in Physique – and Chirurgery…”, an early 17th century manuscript of some 130 or so pages that seems to have been intended for publication, brought a much higher than expected bid in a recent London sale.
Sold for £35,000 at Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in its September 27 auction, it was the work of Hugh Napkyn, a ‘Chyrurgian and Maister in Anatomie’, or barber surgeon, of St Botolph without Aldgate in the City of London.