Receipt-Book, French: 19th century

Collection of medical, cookery, miscellaneous and household receipts: in French. Written partly on the rectos only, and mostly by the same hand. There are a few entries by later hands: one of these is dated 1820. The receipts are of a very mixed variety, and include many for cakes and sweet-meats, methods of catching and cooking fish, wine-making, etc.

Early 19th century

1 volume 134 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 20 × 15 cm. Loose in a limp vellum cover from part of a legal document in French dated 1690. A number of leaves have been torn out at the beginning of the MS., and a few at the end. Some leaves slightly damaged.

Purchased 1930.

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).

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/202.