The great and rare art of candying, cooking, distilling, preserving, pickling and physick containing 2 hundred thirty six receipts or above never before this made publick now made publick thro the intercession of some friends for the use good & benefit of the country : w[i]th severall others for making severall sorts of wine / Mary Statham, Her Book.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
43 leaves : paper ; 161 x 102 (148 x 91) mm bound to 174 x 110 mm - Production:
- [England?], 1724.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3j860 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Cookbooks.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European. - Summary:
- Recipe book. Contains a table of contents at the end.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page. Heading of title page: "The first sheet."
Pagination: Paper, 43; [ii], 1-77, [vii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written out to the edges of each page, leaving little or no margins or gutter on most pages. On some pages a few words are lost at the edge or bottom.
Script: Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of Mary Statham (p. i).
Binding: Contemporary stamped paper. Inside upper cover contains a stamped coat of arms, partially trimmed away, with the legend "Super Fine."
Origin: Written in England, 22 September 1724 (p. i).
Paper somewhat brittle; edges fraying. - Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 251
- Contributor:
- Aresty, Esther B., former owner.
Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 155964056