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

Title

Recipe book

Authors

• Cotton, Catharine
• Allen, Josep

Call number

Ms. Codex 214
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2362773
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2362773

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1698

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book containing cooking and medical recipes in several hands. Several recipes are attributed to others, for example, to "Lady Morgen, "Lady Dolben," and "Mrs. Anne Sheldon." A medical prescription and recipe for "A sovereign remedy for bile" is signed "Dr. Josep Allen" (f. 7v with book reversed). Near the end in a section of blank pages is a satirical poem entitled "A receipt how to make a right Presbyterian in two days" (f. 15r with book reversed).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Attribution and date from title page, where first name is spelled "Catharine," elsewhere in volume and on covers it is "Catherine."
   
• Several pages nearly detached.
   

Extent

105 leaves : 200 x 158 mm. bound to 205 x 161 mm

Foliation

Paper, 105; [ii], 1, 2, 5-43, [44-105]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Folio 12 has been torn out, other unnumbered leaves torn out; 24 blank leaves in middle. Reverse of the book has 7 leaves of mostly medical recipes.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather with name Catherine:Cotton: embossed on both covers.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by one hand on f. 1-40 and the remainder in several additional hands.

Provenance

• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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