English Recipe Collection, 18th century

Collection of cookery and medical receipts in various hands, 18th century. An amalgam of 18th-century fragments bound together in the 19th century. The volume is made up of three main elements: 1. ff. 3-13, a collection of mid 18th-century medical and cookery recipes, considerably faded by damp-stains; several recipes bear dates in the 1740s; 2. ff. 15-25, a mid 18th-century collection of cookery recipes; 3. ff. 31-72, a late 18th-century collection of cookery recipes. Authorities for the early recipes include `Lady Probyn' [?Elizabeth Probyn (d. 1749), wife of Sir Edmund Probyn (1678-1742), judge, of Newent, Gloucs.], `Lady Stapleton', `Dr Mead' [Richard Mead MD, 1673-1754], `Dr Hayes', and someone with the initials R P. Late 19th century half-calf binding, lettered `cookery, M S.' on spine. Marbled end papers.

18th century

73 ff. 1 vol., 217 x 170 mm.

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/222.

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

Marks of ownership: `Lewis Evans' (ff. 31v., 32v., 68v.) [Revd Lewis Evans (1755-1827), Vicar of Froxfield, Wilts.]; `Jane Evans' (ff. 35v., 53v.). Bookplate of Sebastian Evans (b. 1830), poet.