Manuscripts
![[Anon.], [Mirror of Wonders and Goal of Every Seeker in the Art of Medicine], folios 124v and 125r (right to left).](http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/pic9l-300x205.jpg "[Anon.], [Mirror of Wonders and Goal of Every Seeker in the Art of Medicine], folios 124v and 125r (right to left).")
[Anon.], [Mirror of Wonders and Goal of Every Seeker in the Art of Medicine], folios 124v and 125r (right to left).
As with printed books, Lewis Evans’s collection of manuscript treatises on dialling and related themes formed the core around which a large accumulation of manuscripts and of archives of mixed nature has developed over the years. From an early fake Copernicus letter to King Charles II’s address book, the scope of the manuscript collection is especially miscellaneous and sometimes surprising. But it preserves many mainstream documents in the history of science, particularly in the fields of instrumentation, astronomy, and chemistry; contains papers of a number of important scientists, scientific tradesmen, and scientific amateurs; and provides a home for the papers of several historians, collectors, and curators associated with the Museum, notably Lewis Evans, R. T. Gunther, G. H. Gabb, F. Sherwood Taylor, H. E. Stapleton and, most recently, Professor Margaret Gowing.
