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.

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.

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/222.