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

Title

Recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 785
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2706829
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2706829

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

between 1705 and 1726

Place

England

Summary

English cookery manuscript, with recipes for meats, cakes, puddings, jellies, fruit preserves, pickling, wine making, and medicinal recipes. A few are attributed to individuals: Mrs. Godrill, Mrs. Bonyer, Mrs. Battebey, Dr. Brabant, and Lady Hastings. Includes an alphabetical index at the end (p. 153).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Dates 1705 and 1711 on p. 74; November 19, 1726 inside front cover.
   

Extent

90 leaves : 184 x 146 mm. bound to 190 x 148 mm

Foliation

Paper, 90; [ii], 1-143, [144-180]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with other recipes added in several other hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books (Brookline, Mass.), 1995.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Herbs--Therapeutic use--England--18th century
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Wine and wine making

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Table of contents

• 153 — Index, p. 153