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Title

Booke of recepts

Authors

• Lawrance, Ann

Call number

Ms. Codex 629
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2362777
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2362777

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1737

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book for cooking; a table of contents on the title page.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Date from cover: july ye 30th 1737.
   

Extent

34 leaves : 205 x 163 mm. bound to 215 x 168 mm

Foliation

Paper, 34; [1-34]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. One folio cut out between 11 and 12, lower portion of f. 21 cut off, and several folios cut out at the end.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper, cover mostly detached.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, with the final two folios in a second hand and a few notes in additional hands.

Provenance

• Provenance: Ex dono J.H. Alx:sur: 53 (on cover, 18th century hand).
   
• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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