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Title
[Cookery recipes and medical cures].
Creator
Charles, Mariabella.
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1678]
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Manuscript. Pen trials and other notes on endpapers.
Scope/Content: Manuscript cookery and home remedy receipt book dating from approximately 1678. Though the volume contains several different 17th century hands, the volume was at least at one point the property of Mariabella Charles. Recipes are mostly consecutively numbered and many are attributed to other people.
Condition: Bound in limp vellum with tracies of leather ties.
Type
text
Extent
15, [191] p., bound ;21 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n18c9d
MS.1950.009
Language
English
eng
Subject
Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
Place
England
Provenance
"Mariabella Charles, her booke 1678" inscribed on cover, and "Mariabella Charles" inscribed on front paste-down endpaper.
Location
CLUW

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