Matthey Family

  • Matthey Family
Date:
c. 1750-1900
Reference:
MS.3498
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Matthey Family. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Receipts for] kitchen and household use, some 100 years old in the Matthey and Goodall Families. Written by various hands from about 1750 to 1900, which is the date of a pencilled note on the treatment of boils on fol. 111. This is intialled 'E.M.' (i.e. Edward Matthey [1837-1918]) and dated 9/12/1900. The receipts at the beginning are mostly cookery receipts, but those from fol. 70 onwards are medical. There are numerous inserted receipts by different hands, both cookery and medical, many pasted in. Among those on fol. 50 is an estimate, dated 1 February, 1866, sent in by H. Chaplin, cook and confectioner of 2 Upper Baker St., London, for the wedding breakfast for Marie Matthey. It involved a meal for 24 persons at 12/6 per head, without wine. The title given above is from a label pasted on to the spine, and written by Edward Matthey: the upper part is missing.

Publication/Creation

c. 1750-1900

Physical description

1 volume 13 ll. + 125 ff. folio. 33 × 23 1/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Ff. 8-10, 42, 43, 119-124 have been cut out. Ff. 51-69 are blank. Armorial book-plate of Edward Matthey pasted inside the upper cover.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of the Recipe books project.Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/215.

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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  • 78521