Dalton, Nathaniel (1641-1708)

Excellent receipts for divers distempers most of [them] approved and practised. [Followed by] Notes for sermons, etc., and a theological common-place book. Compiler's holograph MS. On the 28th leaf of the theological section of the MS., Dalton has written: 'Oatleidg [sic] Hall in agro Cantabrigiae Domino Dudleio North sacellanus domesticus Nathaniel Dalton et vicarius ibidem'. Below this is the date 13 January, 1668.

1668

1 volume 1 l. + 23 pp. + 186 ll. folio. 30 x 181/2 cm. Half-calf binding by Bretherton 1849, with his trade label. A number of leaves have been cut out from different parts of the MS., and it seems to have been compiled over many years. Some cookery receipts in a later and illiterate hand have been interpolated in the first part.

Purchased at Sotheby's 18/6/1908, Lot 641.

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation 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).

Phillipps MS. No. 13464.