Carter, Thomas (& others)

A booke or Phisicke, Surgery, Preserves and Cookery, with sondry other excellent Receipts. Text within red rules. The receipts contained in this MS. are almost entirely medical. Written by several hands of the first half of the 17th cent. On fol. 252v, and fol. 253 signature of Thomas Carter.

1621

1 volume 5 bl. ll. +1 l. +13 bl. ll. +298 ff. + pp. 299-431 +1 l. +24 bl. ll. +46 ll. (last 4 bl.). folio. 301/2 x 191/2 cm. Original stamped calf binding, with gilt arabesque central ornament on each cover, worn. Each cover with 4 brass corner pieces: two brass and leather clasps. First 6 ll. frayed in the margins.

Purchased 1930.

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

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).

Pasted inside the upper cover armorial book-plate of John T[ownsend] Aiton [1777-1851], Gardener to Kensington Palace from 1831 to his death. Above this Library label 'From the Library of the Earl of Ashburnham. Appendix No. CCXXIV. May 1897.' Sold at Sotheby's 1/5/1899 (Ashburnham 'Appendix' Sale), Lot 154.