Lisle (or Delisle), Anne

  • Lisle (or Delisle), Anne
Date:
1748
Reference:
MSS.3294, 3295
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Collection of cookery, medical, veterinary, and domestic receipts. The first volume contains cookery receipts, and is in two parts each with an index. The second volume contains 'Physical receits', 'Cattle receits', and 'Curious receits': each of these has its own index.

Publication/Creation

1748

Physical description

2 volumes 2 vols. folio. 31 x 20 cm. Original calf bindings worn.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 1/6/1943, lot 91.

Biographical note

On the fly-leaf of the first volume 'Anne Lisle 1748'. She is perhaps the Ann Cary daughter of Nicholas Cary of Upcern, Dorset, who married Charles Lisle [ -1777] of Wodyton and Moyles Court.

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

From the Library of the De Lisle Family of Garendon Park, Leicestershire.

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 71656