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Percivall, Mary. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Percivall, Mary
- Percivall, Mary
- Date:
- mid-18th century
- Reference:
- MS.3828
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts; in English. Compiler's holograph MS. The section pp. 71-75 is headed 'Certain Receipts for the Cure of some Hurts and Diseases incident to Mank[in]d'. 'Mrs. Mary Percivall' is inscribed in the upper corner of the last leaf. On the verso of the penultimate leaf, written by another hand 'George Hope Esqre his Booke and he is my hunny [honey?] Landlord Samuel Jenkins ... my Landlady is very good aliquando'.
Publication/Creation
mid-18th century
Physical description
1 volume 3 ll. + 75 pp. + 6 ll. (first 5 bl.). 4to. 181/2 × 141/2 cm. Original calf-gilt binding. Pp. 35-70 are blank.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1931.
Location of duplicates
Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/206.
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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Accession number
- 75686