[Recipe book]

Name:

Cotton, Catharine; Allen, Josep; Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1698

Description:

Recipe book containing cooking and medical recipes in several hands. Several recipes are attributed to others, for example, to "Lady Morgen, "Lady Dolben," and "Mrs. Anne Sheldon." A medical prescription and recipe for "A sovereign remedy for bile" is signed "Dr. Josep Allen" (f. 7v with book reversed). Near the end in a section of blank pages is a satirical poem entitled "A receipt how to make a right Presbyterian in two days" (f. 15r with book reversed).

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:

Codices; Cookbooks; Recipes; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

105 leaves : paper; 200 x 158 mm bound to 205 x 161 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Attribution and date from title page, where first name is spelled "Catharine," elsewhere in volume and on covers it is "Catherine."; Foliation: Paper, 105; [ii], 1, 2, 5-43, [44-105]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Folio 12 has been torn out, other unnumbered leaves torn out; 24 blank leaves in middle. Reverse of the book has 7 leaves of mostly medical recipes.; Script: Written in a cursive script, by one hand on f. 1-40 and the remainder in several additional hands.; Binding: Contemporary leather with name Catherine:Cotton: embossed on both covers.; Origin: Written in England, 1698.; Several pages nearly detached.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 214