Details

Subjects:

Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- England -- 18th century.
Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Wine and wine making.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use.
England.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Cookbooks.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

English cookery manuscript, with recipes for meats, cakes, puddings, jellies, fruit preserves, pickling, wine making, and medicinal recipes. A few are attributed to individuals: Mrs. Godrill, Mrs. Bonyer, Mrs. Battebey, Dr. Brabant, and Lady Hastings. Four recipes, unattributed in the manuscript, originally appeared in the recipe book of Hannah Woolley, printed in five editions between 1670 and 1684 (Nicosia). The manuscript ends with an alphabetical index (p. 153).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Dates 1705 and 1711 on p. 74; November 19, 1726 inside front cover.
Pagination: Paper, 90; [ii], 1-143, [144-180]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in italic script by a single hand, with other recipes added in several other hands.
Binding: Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment.
Origin: Written in England, in the late 17th and early 18th century, based on script and binding style (Nicosia) and dates in the manuscript (1711, p. 74; 1726, inside upper cover).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books (Brookline, Mass.), 1995.

Publications about:

Nicosia, Marissa. "Cooking Hannah Woolley's printed recipes from a manuscript recipe book: UPenn Ms. Codex 785." In After print: eighteenth-century manuscript cultures. Rachael Scarborough King, editor. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p.285-309.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 785

OCLC:

212378373