Receipt book

A collection of cookery receipts in English, mainly by the same hand, with a few later additions. The date 1825 appears on p. 281, and the paper has a dated water-mark, 1822.

c. 1825

1 volume 7 ll. + 293 pp. + 4 bl. ll. 4to. 22 × 18 cm. Original vellum binding. Pp. 287-291 have been torn out.

Purchased 1915.

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).