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

Title

Recipe book

Call number

Ms. Codex 876
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3179041
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3179041

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1780

Place

England

Summary

Culinary recipes for catchup, vinegar, breakfast cakes, french bread, hams, black pudding, dried apples, sea biscuits, sauces, soups, cheeses, preserves, etc. plus medicinal and household recipes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

54 leaves : 174 x 99 (151 x 92) mm. bound to 166 x 100 mm

Foliation

Paper, 54; [1-54]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Recipes on f. 52-54 written upside down and in reverse; f. 33-51 blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary quarter parchment and marbled boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Henry Sotheran Limited, London, 2001.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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