French Recipe Book, 18th century

Collection of medical and other recipes largely in a single 18th century hand, comprising:

1. ff. 6-179 Receipts taken from the French translation of Sir Kenelm Digby's Choice and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery: as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities, 1668, with index (ff. 182-193)

2. ff. 194-220 'Extraits des Mellieures [sic] Receptes recuillies [sic] par François Reinhard Albertini d'Ichtersheim,[b.c. 1692], Pannetier d'Hochfelden, pour differentes maladies, approuvées', with index (ff. 222-224).

With several later recipes in various 18th century hands inserted at the front of the volume and in the blanks between the above, three of which are ascribed to a certain 'Comte de Galiostro' [possibly the so-called Count Alessandro Cagliostro, 1743-1795, Italian adventurer and self-styled magician].