Details

Subjects:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
Arithmetic.
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Account books.
Cookbooks.
Diagrams.
Recipes.
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Arithmetic and account book also used for recipes. First 15 leaves have tables for weights, money, and basic arithmetic written in an elegant hand with flourishes. Several pages comprise accounts dated 1699-1703, including taxes paid for Priors Court, a number of payments to William Cooke, to other workers, and receipts from rents. Middle section has "cookrey" in a third hand, a section of medical recipes, including remedies for pregnant and lactating women; and several additions in other hands.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 86 + i (contemporary paper); [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Decoration: Section on arithmetic has a number of tables and diagrams of mathematical problems, some in red and blue ink.
Binding: Contemporary leather; several gatherings nearly or completely detached.
Origin: Written in England from 1699 (f. 17v) to 1703 (f. 84r).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1995.

Cited in:

Described in Theophano, Janet. Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen, an exhibition of materials selected from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library, 1996), p. 9 (No. 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 388.

OCLC:

155971788

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