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[Recipe book].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 624
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Petre, D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking, English.
- Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
- Traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- cookbooks
- recipes
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
- Physical Description:
- 106 leaves : paper ; 178 x 147 mm bound to 180 x 150 mm
- Production:
- [England], 1705.
- 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.
- 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
- OCLC:
- 155972651
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