Cookery-books: French: 18th cent.

Date:
c. 1750
Reference:
MS.1849
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Cookery-books: French: 18th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Book of cookery receipts in French, mostly for sweetmeats, preserved fruits, etc. Written by the same hand throughout. There are also a few household receipts.

Publication/Creation

c. 1750

Physical description

1 volume 60 pp. + 13 bl. ll. + 2 ll. 4to. 181/2 x 17 cm. Unbound. Two leaves have been torn out before the last leaf, a piece cut out of the lower part of p. 15/16, corners frayed: the last leaf is damaged.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1898.

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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  • 5025