SC - PRIMARY SOURCES -free show
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adl15.adelphi.edu
Wed Jan 21 12:44:05 PST 1998
Olga wrote, several months ago:
> Apparently there is a showing of 16th and17th centuy books including: The
> Queen-like Closet, The Supplement to the Quuen-Like Closet, The Accomplished
> Ladys Delight, by Hannah Wooley (1600's)
> The Inward and Outward Vertues Which ought to be in a Compleat Woman, as her
> Skill in Physicke, Surgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyles, Banquetting Stuffe,
> Secrets, Ordering of Grate Feasts, Perserving allSorts of Wine.....
> Distillations, Perfumes.... by Gervase Markham( 1630)
>
> WHERE: FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
> 201 E. Capitol St. SW, Washington D.C.
> WHEN: Through Jan. 31. 10am-4pm
> Monday through Saturday
> ADMISSION: FREE
>
> PHONE: 202-544-4600
In case anybody's in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. and hasn't seen
the exhibit yet, it's leaving in a week and a half and you really should
see it. Lots of fascinating and practical household stuff.
mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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