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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands

Archive File: MS 894 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands

Level: File

Classmark: MS 894

Date(s): 17--

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 vol. (68 ff.)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5910

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

Description

Original pagination to the end of the text only; pp.81-2 missing and a hiatus in the text. Thumb index, ff.1-5, extended from front fly-leaf; ff.54 to end, blank. Dated 1769 on f.35r. Signatures: 'Mary Leaghe' and 'Mary Lee' on front paste-down, and 'Mary Leigh' on f.22r; 'Henry Danvers Hodges Esqr' on front fly-leaf recto. Back paste-down marked 'Bath 1775'. Front board marked: 'M.L./House receipts/1767' (the date badly rubbed).

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Once in the possession of Mary Lee and of Henry Danvers Hodges of Broadwell, Bath

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