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

Title

Recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 635
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2363154
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2363154

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

17--

Place

England?

Summary

Recipe book, probably from England, with recipes for preserves, puddings, pickles, pasties, pies, tarts, omelets, soup, etc. Two recipes are identified as "Lady Betty Southwell's." One leaf near the end of the volume has two medicinal recipes for "Mrs. Armenaut's Plaster" and "A Fine Lip Salve."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

98 leaves : 323 x 205 (296 x 195) mm. bound to 330 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper, 98; [1-98]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th century half calf with marbled boards. Paper is torn and pulling away from boards. Spine is split at upper and lower hinges.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1996.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Cookbooks
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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