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

Title

Recipe book

Authors

• Petre, D

Call number

Ms. Codex 624
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2363299
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2363299

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1705

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from front to back; medical recipes comprise the larger section and are written from back to front with book reversed. Contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals. One leaf with recipe for "Artificial Asses Milk" is laid in after the cookery section

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Attribution from f. 1v, D Petre Her Book. A different hand has added "oro:" behind the "D" (perhaps Dorothy or Dorothea) and added the date, 1705. Attribution is difficult to decipher; in her catalog Janet Theophano has used the attribution Doro Petrie.
   

Extent

106 leaves : 178 x 147 mm. bound to 180 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 107; [1-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary pagination from front: [iv], 1-53. Contemporary pagination from reverse: [iv], 1-75. 34 blank leaves in between. There are a number of stubs for pages in the middle that appear to have been cut or torn out.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several 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--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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