Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797.

Thomas Nevell's day book [manuscript].

Philadelphia, 1762-1785.

222 leaves : paper ; 316 x 210 mm.

Financial records of Thomas Nevil, also known as Thomas Nevell, including expenses and payments received, mostly between 1762 and 1776. The end of the book contains recipes for the medical preparations of a Dr. Weed, signed over to Samuel Wetherill by Rebecca B. (Reed) Nicholson, written between 1795 and 1801.

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Forms part of the Wetherill Papers.

Pagination: Paper, 222 leaves; ii, 1-200, [201-203], 204, 204, 205, 205, 206, 206, [207]; f. 107-196 blank; f. 197-222 contain records and recipes, with some pages of recipes marked with inconsistent contemporary foliation.

Layout: All pages (including blank ones) ruled vertically by hand in red ink for columns for figures.

Binding: Contemporary leather with blind stamping and label on front pastedown reading "Sold by David Hall at the New Printing-Office, in Market-street, Philadelphia"; in extremely poor and fragile condition. Covers are detached; all text pages at beginning and end have been disbound and encapsulated; blank pages are still in a sewn block.

Origin: Entries written in Philadelphia between 1762 and 1801.

UPenn Ms. Codex 1049

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1049