Cookery-Book

Date:
c. 1725-c. 1775
Reference:
MS.1790
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Cookery-Book. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Cooking Book discovered in an Abbey in Gloucestershire. Supposed to have been written by a Gentleman's Housekeeper in the Year 1790 [date struck through]. The title as given above is found on the first leaf, written in a hand of the first half of the 19th cent. The date 1790 seems too late, and the earlier part of the MS. appears to be in a script of the first quarter of the 18th cent.

Publication/Creation

c. 1725-c. 1775

Physical description

1 volume 45 ll. 4to. 181/2 x 15 cm. Unbound. Some leaves probably wanting at the end. Written by several hands, mostly on the rectos only.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1931.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation project.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Ownership note

From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery-books.

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  • 73731B