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Credit
Cookery-book: 17th / 18th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Cookery-book: 17th / 18th century
- Date:
- c.1685-c.1725
- Reference:
- MS.1796
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
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).
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.
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).
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.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 83063