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Title: [Culinary and medical recipe book].
Contributor: Hawar, Elisabeth, inscribed name.
Date Created and/or Issued: about 1687
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: 17th-century manuscript cookery and medical remedy book written in several different hands. The text is written from both ends and the front and rear paste-downs include the inscriptions "The First Part" and "The Second Part" respectively. The "first" part includes a long series of mixed medicinal and culinary recipes, followed by a second sequence (with an index) of culinary recipes only. The "second" part mostly consists of medicinal recipes in 3 different hands (3 distinct series of recipes, one with an index written in the same hand as the index in "The First Part"), and one section of culinary recipes in a fourth hand. Each part concludes on facing pages with "ffinis Anno Domini 1687."
Condition: Contemporary plain calf binding with gilt double ruled border; contemporary metal lock on upper cover with clasp remains on the lower cover; upper cover detached.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
Extent: 358 pages, bound ;31 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1pc8r
f MS.1975.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--London
Provenance: "Elisabeth Hawar" inscribed on front paste-down endpaper in a later hand than the text; directions to various places in Spitalfields and Shoreditch are written in the same hand.
Location: CLUW

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