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Title

The delights for ladys :

Authors

• Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Powell, Mabella, former owner
• Lovett, Joseph, 1737-, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006160647)
• Aresty, Esther B, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122115)

Call number

Ms. Codex 627
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9923627463503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/209695234
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3222r588

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1655

Place

England

Summary

Recipe book, perhaps modelled after Hugh Plat's Delightes for ladies, but this does not appear to contain copies of the recipes in Plat's book. An introductory letter is missing the first leaf, which has been cut out, this letter is signed Jose: Lovett, and the manuscript of Delights for ladys is in Lovett's hand. There is a full table of contents to the Delights for ladys (p. xi). The reverse of this book contains recipes in several hands and is signed "Mabella Powell Her Booke" on the first page. Includes both cooking and medical recipes in both sections.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. vii).
   

Extent

79 leaves : 150 x 75 mm bound to 142 x 80 mm

Foliation

Paper, 79; [xvi], 1-75, [76-142]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather, with two clasps missing.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, presumably Joseph Lovett's, with recipes added by at least three additional hands.

Provenance

• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• cookbooks
• recipes
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 17th century
• English
• England
• Paper

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