Forster (née Burn), Mary (& others)

  • Forster, née Burn, Mary
Date:
1758
Reference:
MS.2410
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Receipt book containing mostly cookery receipts, with some medical and a few household receipts. With additions by several hands. Pp. 83-132, 155/6, 169/70, 198/9, 202/3, 208-211 are wanting, and p. 173/4 is mutilated. Many leaves are stained. A receipt on p. 136 is dated 1809. There are many childish scribblings, the latest is dated 1818 (p. 147).

Publication/Creation

1758

Physical description

1 volume 26 ll. + 247 pp. + 2 ll. 4to. 191/2 × 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding damaged.

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Acquisition note

Acquired 1926.

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/230.

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).

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Accession number

  • 44574