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English Recipe Book. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
English Recipe Book
- Date:
- c. 1700
- Reference:
- MS.5431
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Recipe book, containing culinary and medical receipes, including remedies for consumption, scurvy, melancholy, falling sickness and other ailments. Inscriptions in a second hand on the rear end paper refer to events in October 1712.
Publication/Creation
c. 1700
Physical description
1 volume 1 volume: 320 × 205 mm., 177 pp. (wanting pp. 1-16, 19-30, 39-40, 47-48, 61-64, 125-136, 150-160). Original vellum binding, badly damaged.
Acquisition note
Presented by Mr R G A Remington, 1986.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of the Recipe books project.Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/160.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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Accession number
- acc. 347666