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English Recipe Book, late 17th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
English Recipe Book, late 17th century
- Date:
- late 17th century
- Reference:
- MS.7787
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Cookery and medical recipes in various hands, late 17th century.
With a typewritten transcript and other papers on the history of cookery, 20th century.
A fragment of a recipe collection, formerly part of a collection apparently belonging to Mary Peacock: two of the culinary recipes are ascribed to a Mrs Peacock..
Publication/Creation
late 17th century
Physical description
11 ff. disbound 4-11 largely blank.
Acquisition note
Purchased from A R Heath, 1999, ex Dominic Winter's sale, 3 Nov. 1999, part of lot 482.
Location of duplicates
This recipe book has been digitised and images are linked to the catalogue record.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
Ownership note
Ownership inscription: 'Mary Peacock her booke ..1699' (f. 11v.).
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Location Status Access Closed stores