[Recipe book]

Name:

Petre, D.; Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1705

Description:

Recipe book containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from front to back; medical recipes comprise the larger section and are written from back to front with book reversed. Contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals. One leaf with recipe for "Artificial Asses Milk" is laid in after the cookery section

Language:

English

Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.; Aresty, Esther B., former owner.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); cookbooks; recipes; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

106 leaves : paper; 178 x 147 mm bound to 180 x 150 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Attribution from f. 1v, D Petre Her Book. A different hand has added "oro:" behind the "D" (perhaps Dorothy or Dorothea) and added the date, 1705. Attribution is difficult to decipher; in her catalog Janet Theophano has used the attribution Doro Petrie.; Pagination: Paper, 107; [1-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary pagination from front: [iv], 1-53. Contemporary pagination from reverse: [iv], 1-75. 34 blank leaves in between. There are a number of stubs for pages in the middle that appear to have been cut or torn out.; Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.; Binding: Contemporary parchment.; Origin: Written in England, 1705.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 624