Cookery-book: 17th / 18th century

Date:
c.1685-c.1725
Reference:
MS.1796
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Cookery-book: 17th / 18th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery and medical receipts: written mainly by two compilers.

The medical receipts are mostly on ff. 65-95, and are written by the later hand.

A receipt for 15/- 'for a table and all account' is found on the last leaf, and is dated 1736, but it is by a later hand than any in the main text.

Publication/Creation

c.1685-c.1725

Physical description

1 volume 103 ff. + 6 ll. + 60 bl. ll. + 10 ll. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original panelled blind-stamped calf binding, worn. Written on the rectos only.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 16/10/1936, Lot 205 (part).

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/226.

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).

Ownership note

Armorial book-plate of 'Edward Duke of Norfolk, Earle Marshall of England', i.e. Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk [1785-1842], made Earl Marshal in 1824.

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  • 83063