Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 2389: English recipe book : University of Pennsylvania 2026-09-28 2026-09-28 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 2389: English recipe book : are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2026 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 2389 9979942923403681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1600897593 https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.OVERSIZEMS.CODEX2389 https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/09ce3509-ef9c-441c-bc91-96ea63548fc0 This cookbook contains 145 culinary and medicinal recipes written and compiled by an unknown individual in England, possibly in Kent, in 1733. The volume is bound in original vellum with some damage to the binding. The folio size paper has watermarks of the name I. Gaudin and the Amsterdam coat of arms. The recipes are organized into four sections, Surgery and Physick (p. 1-25), Cordial Waters (p. 41-49), Sweet Meats (p. 77-92), and an untitled section with additional remedies (p. 97-101). Each section is followed by a run of blank pages (p. 26-40, 50-76, 102-169). The front pastedown includes the bookplates of two former owners: F. William Cock, M.D., 1898, Appledore, Kent and Chef Fritz Blank. Surgery and Physick has 78 recipes for a variety of ailments, though there are a considerable number of recipes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Examples of recipes in this section include Lady Harrington’s receipt for ye stones (p. 2), for ye rickets in children (p. 11), for a woman in danger of miscarrying (p. 12), Lady Acton’s eye water (p. 18), Dr. Kenelm Digby’s receipt for a fistula for a cancer in ye breast (p. 20), Dr. Goddard’s glister for ye stone (p. 24), a receipt for a woman in travail wth a dead child prob (p. 24), Lady Frances Coventry’s receipt for quickening labour (p. 25), and to expel ye afterbirth (p. 25). Cordial waters contains 27 recipes, examples of which include surfeit water (p. 43), aqua miribilis (p. 45), and Dr. Lower’s cordial tincture (p. 49). Sweet meats contains 27 recipes, examples of which include march pane (p. 77), Wood Street cake (p. 78), Lady Middleton’s orange cakes (p. 80), mace cakes (p. 84), to mack Madam Bromly’s seed cakes (p. 87), and to mack my cousins Littleston’s bunns (p. 89). The last page (p. 170) and back pastedown include a series of prescriptions titled “May 1733 what Doct Heels order’d My Lord.” It is unclear what he was being treated for. English recipe book : former owner Cock, F. William donor Blank, Fritz i A collection of receipts 1 Surgery and Physick 41 Cordial Waters 77 Sweet Meats 97 [Additional remedies] 170 Prescriptions 1 volume (170 pages) ; 32 x 20 cm

Paper, 85 leaves; 1¹²ˉ¹(-2), 2⁴ˉ¹(-1), 3¹⁴, 4¹⁸ˉ²(-4, -5), 5¹²ˉ¹(-4), 6¹⁸, 7¹⁴ˉ¹(14 is pastedown); pagination in pencil, lower outer corners, 1-170.

 1733 England Formerly owned by Frederick William Cock (Appledore, Kent, England, 1858-1943). Gift of Chef Fritz Blank, 2008. Cooking, English--Early works to 1800 Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800 Women--Health and hygiene codices (bound manuscripts) Cookbooks Recipes Manuscripts, English--18th century