Fuller, Elizabeth (& others)

  • Fuller, Elizabeth.
Date:
1712-1822
Reference:
MS.2450
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Fuller, Elizabeth (& others). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery and medical receipts. With additional receipts by several hands. Some of the added receipts have been pasted in, or inserted loose. 'Elizabeth Fuller. 1712' is inscribed on the recto of the first leaf, within a pen-drawn circular decoration. The date 1822 is found in a scribbling on the title-page. Also includes a few inserted letters, one a love letter c.1805 enclosing a silhouette. Addressed to Sloane Family, Romsey, Hants.

Publication/Creation

1712-1822

Physical description

1 volume 1 l. + 111 pp. + 3 ll. folio. 301/2 × 20 cm. Unbound. A number of leaves have been torn out after p. 111, including part of the index from A to O, and the last leaf.

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Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's, 27/7/1925, Lot 141 (part).

Related material

See David Potter, 'Elizabeth Fuller's cookery manuscript, 1712', in Petits Propos Culinaires, 67 (2001), 24-26

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).

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/203.

Ownership note

From the Library of Sir Charles Stewart Forbes [1867-1927].

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  • 92000