Details

Subjects:

Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Home economics -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Wine and wine making.
Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Home economics.
England.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Cookbooks.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Recipe book in 2 volumes, the first dated 1730, the second dated 1744. First volume contains cooking, wine, medical, and household cleaning recipes, the second is comprised mostly of recipes for cooking. Many recipes are attributed to members of the aristocracy, for example, Lady Newell (p. 201), Ladie Henett (p. 405) and the Earle Yarmouth (p. 406). Medicinal recipes in volume 1 include "the palsey water," "a collick water," "the plague water," and "the scorbutique water ... probatum est Sr. John Osten" (p. 400-403).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Attribution and date for v. 1, J:Bedingfield Her Book 1730, inside lower cover; attribution and date for v. 2, Ju:Bedingfeld her book 1744 is on outside upper cover. Name Judeth Bedingfeld is inside upper cover, v. 1.
Foliation: V.1: Paper, 78; [iii, 1-75]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Irregular contemporary pagination; p. [iii], 27-35, [ii], 36-109, 200-209, 300-309, 400-409, 500-509, 600-608, 703-704, 706-709, 800-809, 900. Three detached folios laid in at the beginning, but no other apparent missing pages. V.2: Paper, 90; [1-90]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a clear cursive script by a single hand, with a number of recipes, especially in v. 1, in a second hand, and some additions in two or more other hands.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, both volumes the same. Writing on the cover of v. 1 is no longer legible. Volume 1 is fragile with many stains on outer edges of the leaves, leaves are brittle. Volume 2 is in better condition, but in both the text is written to the outer edge of the margin and may crumble away.
Origin: Written in England, 1730-1744.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.

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. 7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 631.

Contributor:

Aresty, Esther B., former owner.
Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

209710163

Access Restriction:

Volume 1: Access to this item is subject to staff review.