An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century
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Type of record: Archive
Title: An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century
Classmark: MS 506
Date(s): c.1650-c.1800
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5064
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
Includes recipes from Lady Corke (probably Elizabeth Clifford, d.1690/1, wife of 2nd earl) (f.132); from Lord Justice Willes (1685-1761) (f.10); from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1760 (f.130); and a prescription from Mr Hall of Manchester, April 1758 (f.7)
Erratic contemporary pagination; modern foliation; restored and bound by the Borthwick Institute, York, loose items being bound in, October 1981. In various hands.
Biography or history
Nothing is known of the compilers of this collection, but of the contributors, Elizabeth, Lady Clifford, born at Skipton in 1613, married Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork in 1634, and Sir John Willes, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was caricatured by Hogarth.
Provenance
In the possession of W.S. Ogden, 1882 (f.1)
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