Commonplace-book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Commonplace book c.1650-1730.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Formulas, recipes, etc--Early works to 1800.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 volume (97 ff.)

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.

Summary:

Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathematical calculations from ca. 1650, followed by further recipes, an almanack for 1660, various 'divine precepts and moral rules, dated 15 June 1730', and 14 eighteenth-century English poems, mostly anonymous, but with two works by Laurence Eusden and Joseph Addison

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Lt 102

The compilers of this collection are unknown. Written in several different seventeenth and eighteenth century hands from both ends of the volume, meeting after f.45r. There is some subsidiary pagination within some of the separate sections of text

Local Notes:

Bound in worn and somewhat damaged leather with traces of gilt tooling on the outside covers and spine, and traces also of clasps which have been broken off on the fore-edges of the volume.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.