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Title: [Cookery book].
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1780?]
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. "32r R" handwritten on spine. Several pages excised from end of volume at an early date.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume containing recipes for cookery and medical remedies. The provenance of this item is unclear and its original compiler is unknown. The sources of many recipes are given, and names include Lady Essex Roberts, Lady Lucy Booth, and Dr Ratt. The volume begins with an index with tabs for a 24-letter alphabet.
Condition: Bound in full vellum; covers warped and front hinge cracked.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
Extent: 100, [135] p., bound ;31.5 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1fp45
f MS.1990.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Cooking--England--Early works to 1800.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: "Willes family, ca. 1780" inscribed by 20th century bookseller in pencil on front free endpaper; "M. Legh" inscribed on back cover in contemporary 18th-century hand.
Location: CLUW

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