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

Title

Account book and recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 388
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2362774
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2362774

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1699-1703

Place

England

Summary

Arithmetic and account book also used for recipes. First 15 leaves have tables for weights, money, and basic arithmetic written in an elegant hand with flourishes. Several pages comprise accounts dated 1699-1703, including taxes paid for Priors Court, a number of payments to William Cooke, to other workers, and receipts from rents. Middle section has "cookrey" in a third hand, a section of medical recipes, including remedies for pregnant and lactating women; and several additions in other hands.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

86 leaves : 195 x 148 mm. bound to 203 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 86 + i (contemporary paper); [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather; several gatherings nearly or completely detached.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1995.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Account books
• Cookbooks
• Diagrams
• Recipes
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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