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medicine3
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Ruscelli, Girolamo3
Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565)3
Ward, William3
Alessio Piemontese3
Ward, William (1534-1609)3
Skargon, Yvonne1
Tempest, Jo1
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)1
Benson, Judi1
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BC MS Lt 102, f. 3r: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1650-1730

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 mathemati...

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Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.

c.1720-1830

Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...

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BC MS Lt 25, f. 6v: Fulke Greville's poem
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Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose

c.1610-1620

Comprises Latin verses on ff.1v-6r, 9r-v; English verses on ff.6v-8r. Other contents: f.1, More to Henry VIII; f.32v,seven-point argument in English; ff.33-47, business, travel and custom-house and ce...

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The mushroom feast

Grigson, Jane; Skargon, Yvonne

1978

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BC MS Lt 43, f. 34v: Henry Fairfax's poem
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax

Fairfax, Henry

1679-1682

Many references to Yorkshire localities, e.g. Denton, Tadcaster, Otley, Kettlewell, York. As well as poetry there is much in prose, including recipes. References to writer's brother B. and sister S.

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BC MS Lt q 9, f.29v:
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Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest

Tempest, Jo

c.1640-1650

Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five being signed or initialled by Tempest; a few pieces of Latin verse; London sermons etc. from various sources; three extracts from speeches before parliament f...

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BC MS Lt 96, f. 119v:
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Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.

c.1710-1750

Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.

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The seconde part of the Secretes of Maister Alexis of Piemont: by hym collected out of diuers excellent authors, and nevvly translated out of Frenche into Englishe. With a generall table of all matters contained in the saied booke. By Willyam Warde

Alessio Piemontese; Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565); Ward, William (1534-1609)

[1580]

A translation of part 2 of a French version of: De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese. Mostly in black letter. Publication date from STC. N. England's device is on the title-page and J. Wight'...

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