Smyth Family

Receipt book containing medical and cookery receipts: with numerous later additions by various hands, including some household and miscellaneous receipts. The original entries, perhaps written c. 1750, are in a large italic script and are scattered throughout the volume between p. 11 and p. 288. The largest group seems to have been written in the first quarter of the 19th cent., and many of the receipts are dated: the latest date is 1853 on p. 302. Pp. 96-99 contain prescriptions, etc. for Fr. Smyth Esqre. and Mrs. Smyth by Alexander Hunter [1729-1809] dated 1788, and by Thomas Kilvington [1732-1823], dated 1795 and 1797.

c. 1750-1853

1 volume 7 ll. + 340 pp. folio. 30 × 181/2 cm. Original rough calf binding damaged, upper cover wanting. Some leaves at the beginning, pp. 65/66, 131/132, 199/200, 215/222, 247/248, 291-294, 299/300, 317-320, 323-336, and the end of the index wanting: margins damaged at the beginning and end.

Purchased 1931.

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of the Recipe books project.Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/218.

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).