Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Recipe book

Other related names

• Newton, Edward, 18th cent, former owner

Call number

LJS 165
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5405356
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5405356

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

ca. 1690-1802

Place

England

Summary

Collection of culinary recipes, such as to pickle or preserve various kinds of fruits and vegetables, to prepare meat and fish, and to make wines and desserts; medicinal recipes, for ailments such as stones, colic, consumption, toothache, thrush, and worms; and household preparations, as for killing lice and moths and making substances such as ink and glue. The latest entry is a copy of an 1802 court proceeding at the Old Bailey against 2 men, Levy Cohen and Ephraim Jacobs, charged with forging notes from the Bank of England, which concludes with a verdict of not guilty (f. 76v-79r). The first leaf has medical notes of an astrological nature (f. 1v). Many edges repaired.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

90 leaves : 307 x 194 mm. bound to 317 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, 90; [1-13], 14-18, 20-39, 41-54, 56-69, 74-78, [79-97]; early foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half morocco over marbled boards.

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Early ownership inscription: Edward Newton (f. 90r).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Sept. 1996, lot 158, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Trials (Forgery)--England--London

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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