Parker, Bridget

  • Parker, Bridget
Date:
1663
Reference:
MS.3768
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Parker, Bridget. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of medical and cookery receipts.

Inscribed inside the upper cover: 'Bridgett Parker october the 20th 1663'.

Beginning at the second leaf, starting from the other end of the volume, and written on the rectos only, are 3 pages of rhymed couplets (28 lines) by a different but probably contemporary hand. Beginning: "Pray pardon us that wee so late With lazy sighs bemoane thy fate" Ending: "Doe not deare soule this sacrifice refuse That in thy grave I doe interre my muse." [From the funeral elegy 'Obsequies to the Lord Harrington' by John Donne (1572-1631)].

Publication/Creation

1663

Physical description

1 volume 79 ll. 8vo. 151/2 × 10 cm. Original green vellum binding. Text within red rules.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

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/220.

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Accession number

  • 77080