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Title

Receipt book of medicines.

Authors

• Giberne family

Call number

Ms. Codex 2135
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979170117703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1395216319
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English

Origin

Date

1779?-1822?

Place

London?, England

Summary

Family compilation of medical remedies with many of the remedies dated, attributed to a person or a publication, and annotated. An alphabetical index at the beginning (p. ii-xiii) added to over time covers medical remedies throughout the volume, also added over time. The remedies are for ailments, conditions, and diseases including asthma, shortness of breath, cancer, coughs, corns, dropsy, headache, indigestion, leprosy, scurvy, toothache, and worms. A few culinary recipes (mostly p. 135-142) and household chemical formulas are present but mostly not included in the index. Frequent references to London, Bedford, and Bath. Two notes are laid in, one a copy of advertising text about cocoa paste and prepared chocolate powder, the other instructions for cold cream and lip salve, dated 1833.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from front cover.
   

Extent

87 leaves : mm bound to mm +

Collation

Paper, 87 leaves; 1¹⁴⁻³ (-1, -2, -3, as pastedowns) 2¹⁶ 3¹⁶⁻¹(-1) 4-5¹⁶ 6¹⁶⁻³ (-14, -15, -16, as pastedowns); [i-xvi], 1-3, 3-37, 40-84, 83-157.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, damage at head of spine, simple blind-tooling, title (Receipt book of medicines) written on front cover in ink

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Dean Cooke Rare Books (Bristol, England), 2023.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 18th century
• English
• England
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• ii — [Index]
• xiv — [Receipts]