English Recipe Book, early 19th century

Collection of cookery, household and medical receipts in various hands. Authorities include Sir Richard Jebb (1729-1787), ff. 60v., 92r., 100r; Sir Henry Halford (1766-1844), f. 92r; `Dr Blake', f. 29v; `Dr Radcliffe', f. 32r; `Dr Warren', ff. 57v.-58r., 61r., 103v; `Dr Vaughan', f. 61r; `Dr Barclay', f. 89r; `Dr Hollingbeck', f. 91v; and `Dr McWhirter', ff. 104v., 107r. Several of the lay authorities are identified as from Edinburgh (e.g. ff. 31v., 90r.). A number of the later recipes are in French. There are some pressed flowers between ff. 107 and 109. A contemporary pencil sketch of a boy teasing a horse and military rider is loosely inserted at the front of the volume.

c. 1813-c. 1859

1 volume 1 volume: 198 x 165 mm. Vellum-covered boards, with remains of two brass clasps. Watermarks 1800.

Purchased from Janet Clarke, catalogue 38, item 35, 1999.

`Lady Leith's Cookery Book' inscribed on f. 126v. in a later hand.

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

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/223.

126 ff. (33-54, 65-67, 110-123 blank).