Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts : Culinary writing 1650.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baker, Margaret.

Table.

Medical writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008.

Summary:

Margaret Baker has signed the manuscript at the end of the index (fol.69v), along with the date 1650"

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:MS Sloane 2486

Sloane MS 2486 is a fair copy of medical and culinary receipts compiled by Margaret Baker, who has signed and dated the final verso of the volume. She has divided the receipts into two sections, the first a collection of 47 mainly unattributed receipts (fols 2r-10r) and the second a collection of medical receipts attributed to her cousin Lettice Corbett(fols 10v-61v). The subsequent eight folios consist of two indexes, with a note on the first (fol. 62r) indicating that "The part that concerns this table ends at page 17 and is called the first part of the book and contains 47 receipts and then begins anew as in the second table after this ". Margaret Baker's signature appears at the end of the second index (fol. 69v), along with the date 1650. The first leaf of the manuscript appears to be a later addition, written on a different stock of paper with a watermark which does not recur elsewhere in the manuscript (the modern binding makes it appear as if fols 1 and 2 are conjugate, but it is not certain that they were originally so). The hand which has written the first three receipts, on the verso of this leaf, is quite different from the hand in which the rest of the manuscript is written. These receipts are not part of the numbered sequence which begins on fol.2r with "1" nor are they included in the index. As the original page numbering also begins on fol.2r, it is reasonable to conclude that the first three receipts, and the leaf on which they are written, are later additions. Baker's original page numbering (1-17) is present only in the first section of the manuscript (fols 2r-10r), and has been superseded by reliable foliation in a modern hand in the top right corner of each recto. This catalogue entry follows the modern foliation. Baker uses some unfamiliar abbreviations for quantities which are no longer commonly used, such as the "manipulus", a great handful, or the "pugilus", a smaller handful. These abbreviations have been silently expanded, and Baker's table on fol.10v indicating these types of measurements and their equivalents provides a useful reference. Other abbreviations have also been expanded, and where we would use commas in place of her frequent colons and semi-colons these have been modernised. This manuscript is related to Sloane MS 2485, which consists of 76 folios of culinary, medical, and cosmetics receipts, along with practical advice for undertaking minor household repairs and gardening. Sloane MSS 2485 and 2486 appear to have been written in the same hand, and the recurrence of identical receipts and the surname Corbett in both manuscripts reinforces this connection between them.

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