Cookery-books: 18th cent.

Date:
c. 1725
Reference:
MS.1804
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Cookery-books: 18th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts: written by several hands. On the outside leaf 'Book XII'.

Publication/Creation

c. 1725

Physical description

1 volume pp. 3-25 + 4 ll. + 17 bl. ll. + 3 ll. folio. 32 x 201/2 cm. Unbound. The first leaf is missing.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hornby Castle Sale), 2/6/1930, Lot 164 (part).

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation project. Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/226.

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 Duke of Leeds' Library at Hornby Castle (i.e. Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds [1631-1712]).

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  • 62928