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Title: The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened

Author: Kenelm Digby

Editor: Anne MacDonell

Release Date: August 5, 2005 [EBook #16441]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Sir Kenelm Digby Knight. After the Painting by Sir Anthony
Vandyke in His Majesty's Collection at Windsor Castle]

THE CLOSET OF SIR KENELM DIGBY KNIGHT OPENED:

NEWLY EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY, BY ANNE MACDONELL

LONDON: PHILIP LEE WARNER
38 ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1910

The design on the front binding of this volume reproduces a contemporary
Binding (possibly by le Gascon?) from the library of the Author, whose arms
it embodies.

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION ix

THE CLOSET OF SIR KENELM DIGBY OPENED:
TITLE PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION 1
TO THE READER 3
RECEIPTS FOR MEAD, METHEGLIN, AND OTHER DRINKS 5
COOKERY RECEIPTS 111
THE TABLE 263

APPENDIX I. SOME ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS 271
II. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY 272
III. LIST OF THE HERBS, FLOWERS, &C.,
REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT 274

NOTES 277

GLOSSARY 283

INDEX OF RECEIPTS 287

_The frontispiece is a reproduction in photogravure after the portrait of
Sir Kenelm Digby by Sir Anthony Vandyke in His Majesty's Collection at
Windsor Castle, by permission._

INTRODUCTION

With the waning of Sir Kenelm Digby's philosophic reputation his name has
not beco