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Credit
Carr, Mrs. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Carr, Mrs.
- Carr, Mrs.
- Date:
- 1682
- Reference:
- MS.1511
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Collection of cookery and medical receipts.
There are 348 numbered cookery receipts, with 80 numbered and 13 unnumbered medical receipts: the latter are by different and later hands.
The last leaf is on paper of larger format, and this together with a small half 4to. slip have been bound in at the end.
On the last leaf of the main text is an inscription: 'Madam Carrs Booke. Ffeb. 26 1681/2'.
Publication/Creation
1682
Physical description
1 volume 44 ll. + 10 bl. ll. + 17 ll. + 1 l. folio. 301/2 x 191/2 cm. 19th cent. gilt-stamped calf binding. Margins slightly cropped.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1934.
Location of duplicates
This recipe book has been digitised and images are linked to the catalogue record. In addition, a microfilm copy is held as AMS/MF/205.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 66859