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).
Codices; Cookbooks; Recipes; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European
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
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