Don't forget this Primary source

[bunnyjadwiga]

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby opened, 1669:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16441
on Project Gutenberg

Comments

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

I have a serious love of that book.

Primary?

[jackoutofthebox.livejournal.com]

Kinda late period though isn't it? And from what I understand most of his recipes were copied from other sources.

I like the book, but I've always been told it was a secondary source.

Re: Primary?

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

depends on what period you are researching... of course, I do more than SCA

Re: Primary?

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

It's a primary source for the period in which it was written.
I wouldn't think of it as a secondary source, but as a post-period primary source.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

been online it seems... forever
just noticed a while back that gutenberg picked it up, man has that site grown over the last decade!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

As long as Kenelm Digby's closet doesn't resemble Fibber McGee's... :-P

("No! Don't open that..."
*CRASH CRASH CLATTER CRASH*
"...door...")

[math5.livejournal.com]

Funny, I recently downloaded a French version of remedies from him from gallica.bnf.fr
I'll have to check but I don't think it's the translation from the same book.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Sir Kenelm! My honey lamb!