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Title

Commonplace book and recipe book

Other related names

• Aresty, Esther Bradford, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 823
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9929766543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63585326
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2976654

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

after 1567

Place

England

Summary

Commonplace book written in England, beginning with copies of selections from the Psalms; with a copy of the deathbed statement of Lady Katherine (presumably Lady Katherine Grey); and with a section of medicinal and culinary recipes at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Two leaves are torn out near the end but foliation is continuous.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 198 x 141 mm. bound to 204 x 143 mm

Foliation

Paper, 43; [1-13], 1-29, [43]; nearly contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto, beginning on f. 14; this foliation corresponds to entries in the index on the preceding pages; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary limp vellum.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 23 February 1959, lot 322, to Dawson.
   
• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1992.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Commonplace books
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, English--16th century

Keywords

• 16th century
• Recipe book
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper
• England
• English

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Psalms, f. 1r
• fol. 7r — A briefe discourse of the m[?] and order of the d[epar]ting of the Ladye Katherine..., f. 7r
• fol. 10r — Index to recipes, f. 10r