English cookery manuscript, with recipes for meats, cakes, puddings, jellies, fruit preserves, pickling, wine making, and medicinal recipes. A few are attributed to individuals: Mrs. Godrill, Mrs. Bonyer, Mrs. Battebey, Dr. Brabant, and Lady Hastings. Four recipes, unattributed in the manuscript, originally appeared in the recipe book of Hannah Woolley, printed in five editions between 1670 and 1684 (Nicosia). The manuscript ends with an alphabetical index (p. 153).
Language:
English
Provenance:
Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books (Brookline, Mass.), 1995.
Codices; Cookbooks; Recipes; Manuscript, English -- 17th century; Manuscripts, English -- 18th century; Manuscripts, European
Physical Description:
90 leaves : paper; 184 x 146 mm bound to 190 x 148 mm
Geographic Subject:
England
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Dates 1705 and 1711 on p. 74; November 19, 1726 inside front cover.; Pagination: Paper, 90; [ii], 1-143, [144-180]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in italic script by a single hand, with other recipes added in several other hands.; Binding: Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment.; Origin: Written in England, in the late 17th and early 18th century, based on script and binding style (Nicosia) and dates in the manuscript (1711, p. 74; 1726, inside upper cover).
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 785
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