[Commonplace book and recipe book].
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
43 leaves : paper ; 198 x 141 mm bound to 204 x 143 mm - Production:
- [England], [after 1567]
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3587z - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Hertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568.
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking, English.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Cookbooks.
Commonplace books.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, English. - Summary:
- Commonplace book written in England, beginning with copies of selections from the Psalms; with a copy of the deathbed statement of Lady Katherine (presumably Lady Katherine Grey); and with a section of medicinal and culinary recipes at the end.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-6r: Psalms 23-31.
2. f.7r-9r: A briefe discourse of the man[er] and order of the dep[ar]ting of the Ladye Katherine by one hole night wherin she dyed in the morning ... 27 January 1567.
3. f.10r-12r: Index to recipes.
4. f.14v-43v: Recipes. - Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 43; [1-13], 1-29, [43]; nearly contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto, beginning on f. 14; this foliation corresponds to entries in the index on the preceding pages; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum.
Origin: Written in England in the 16th century.
Two leaves are torn out near the end but foliation is continuous. - Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 23 February 1959, lot 322, to Dawson.
Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1992. - Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 823
- Contributor:
- Aresty, Esther Bradford, former owner.
- Contains:
- Bible. Psalms. Selections. English
Briefe discourse of the maner and order of the departing of the Ladye Katherine by one hole night wherin she dyed in the morning. - OCLC:
- 155912914