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:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Statham, Mary.

Contributor:

Aresty, Esther B., former owner.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

cookbooks

recipes

Manuscripts, English -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.

Physical Description:

43 leaves : paper ; 161 x 102 (148 x 91) mm bound to 174 x 110 mm

Production:

[England?], 1724.

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.

Publications about:

Malcolm, Aylin, and Margaret C. Maurer. "Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts," Renaissance Studies special issue (published online ahead of print 2025), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rest.12994.

Cited as:

Mary Statham, The Great and Rare Art of Candying (Ms. Codex 251). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155964056