Details

Subjects:

Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Form/Genre:

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

Summary:

Recipe book containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from front to back; medical recipes comprise the larger section and are written from back to front with book reversed. Contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals. One leaf with recipe for "Artificial Asses Milk" is laid in after the cookery section

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Attribution from f. 1v, D Petre Her Book. A different hand has added "oro:" behind the "D" (perhaps Dorothy or Dorothea) and added the date, 1705. Attribution is difficult to decipher; in her catalog Janet Theophano has used the attribution Doro Petrie.
Pagination: Paper, 107; [1-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary pagination from front: [iv], 1-53. Contemporary pagination from reverse: [iv], 1-75. 34 blank leaves in between. There are a number of stubs for pages in the middle that appear to have been cut or torn out.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in England, 1705.

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) pp. 15-16 (No. 18).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 624

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155972651