Anglo-French Recipe Book, 19th century

Date:
Mid-19th century
Reference:
MS.7883
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Anglo-French Recipe Book, 19th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery recipes, with a few household and medical receipts, in a single hand. Several of the recipes were inserted loose and have been filed separately, for convenience. One of the loose items is a prescription envelope from Prix, Pharmaceutical and Dispensing Chemist, Exeter, addressed to a Mr `Riccards' (7883/2/4); other items are addressed to a Mrs Hopkins (7883/2/15-16, 29), who may have been a later owner of the collection.

Publication/Creation

Mid-19th century

Physical description

56 ff. 29-54 blank, and 35 loose items 1 volume: 178 x 110 mm., Black buckram covers.

Acquisition note

Purchased from A R Heath, 2001.

Ownership note

Ownership inscription (inside front cover): 'Emma S Rickards/Bishopsteignton [Devon]/January 1849'. Dominic Winter Book Auctions, 8 March 2001, lot 529.

Finding aids

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

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/208.

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Accession number

  • 915