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Title

Recipe book.

Call number

Ms. Codex 813
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9929760633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/187936913
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bc3sx14

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1780-1850

Place

England

Summary

Begins with an 18th-century, undated section of medical recipes, primarily for horses and other animals, but with some remedies for worms in children, ague, heart burn, rheumatism, etc. (p. 1-26), with a listing of the contents of this section on f. i recto. Remainder of the volume comprises culinary recipes for meats, cheeses, puddings, preserves, pickles; mead, wine, shrubs, and other beverages, with a few medical recipes interspersed (p. 40-165). The last section of the volume beginning on p. 107 includes some dates, 1803-1836, and attributions for most of the recipes included; the most frequently occurring names are Mrs. J. Arden Clegg or Isabella Clegg and Miss Barber. One attribution includes a place name, "Mrs. Christopherson, Sutterton, 1803." Other surnames include Barton, Carhill, Carrington, Collin, Forbes, Hamilton, Harrison, Horsley, Howe, Hughes, Parkinson, Urquhart, and Ware; plus the full names Gentle Brown and Charlotte Jones. A few recipes are attributed to "Enquire Within."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

82 leaves : 201 x 159 mm bound to 204 x 161 mm

Foliation

Paper, 82; [iv], 1-14, 17-26, 31-89, 91-111, [112-167]; 19th-century pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by more than four hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books (Brookline, Mass.), 2000.
   

Subjects topical

• Clegg, J. Arden
• Clegg, Isabella
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English
• Wine and wine making
• Wine and wine making
• Cooking, English
• Veterinary medicine
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Diagrams
• Paper
• Tables
• Astronomy

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