Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Saffin-Ellis miscellany

Authors

• Smith, William, 1727-1803

Other related names

• Ellis, Ann, former owner
• Saffin, Bettee, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 230
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580611
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580611

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

1716-1762

Place

England

Summary

Collection of cooking recipes, preparations for making drinks and preserves, and pharmaceutical prescriptions. First part of the book bears the name "Bettee Saffin" and the date 1716. The second part bears the name "Ann Ellis" and the date 1762, and includes several texts that were laid in or entered, such as an inventory of silver, some accounts of Sir George Rooke's naval engagements, and the charge delivered by Provost William Smith at the commencement of the College and Academy of Philadelphia in 1757. Also includes two alphabetical indices for recipes (f. 1v-5v, versos only).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

102 leaves : 316 x 202 (283 x 180) mm. bound to 324 x 208 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 102; [iii], 1-50, 85-96, 129, 131-139, 157, 159-176, [i] (stub), 177-178, 180-181, [182-185]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf. Spine badly deteriorated and many quires and individual leaves are nearly or completely detached.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Bettee Saffin, 1716, (signature, f. iii recto) and Ann Ellis, October 21, 1762 (signature, f. iii recto).
   
• Gift of Richard W. Foster.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Prescriptions
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Index, f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Index, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Index, f. 3v
• fol. 4v — Index, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Index, f. 5v