Cookery-books: 18th/19th cent.

Date:
1788-c. 1830
Reference:
MS.1828
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Cookery-books: 18th/19th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery and medical receipts, including some veterinary receipts, and a few domestic receipts: by several hands. The first leaf before the cookery section is inscribed 'Milton Abbot 1788' which is reapeated by another hand and dated 1806. One of the receipts in the medical section is dated 1828.

Publication/Creation

1788-c. 1830

Physical description

1 volume 48 ll. + 30 ll. 4to. 191/2 x 16 cm. Original quarter-vellum binding. Two leaves at the beginning of the medical section have been cut out.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1931.

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/228.

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).

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  • 82079