Receipt Book, English, 17th century

Date:
Circa 17th century
Reference:
MS.7577
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Receipt Book, English, 17th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Manuscript book of culinary and medical recipes, in at least two hands and with signatures inside cover of Ann de la Bere and Hester de la Bere.

54ff., contents as follows:

f.1r: title page, "The Land of Promise Flowing With Milk & Hony....", relating to following scriptural material.f.1v: medical recipes.

ff.2r-12v: scriptural material.

ff.12v-40r: recipes, mixed culinary and medical.

ff.40v-53r: recipes, mixed culinary and medical, written the other way up from the back of the book.

ff.53v-54r: scribbles and handwriting experiments, including signatures of Ann de la Bere Hester de la Bere and Christian Rutter.

f.54v: note on weights and measures.

Publication/Creation

Circa 17th century

Physical description

1 volume 1 vol. bound in contemporary vellum; some damage to ff.1 & 54.

Acquisition note

Purchased from Christie's, May 1998.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

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/221.

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  • acc. 350913