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[Recipe book].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- 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:
- Sold by Henry Sotheran Limited, London, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 54 leaves : paper ; 174 x 99 (151 x 92) mm bound to 166 x 100 mm
- Production:
- [England], 1780.
- Summary:
- Culinary recipes for catchup, vinegar, breakfast cakes, french bread, hams, black pudding, dried apples, sea biscuits, sauces, soups, cheeses, preserves, etc. plus medicinal and household recipes.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Pagination: Paper, 54; [1-54]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Recipes on f. 52-54 written upside down and in reverse; f. 33-51 blank.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
- Binding: Contemporary quarter parchment and marbled boards.
- Origin: Written in England in 1780 (note, inside upper cover).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 876
- OCLC:
- 225095394
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