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Archive Collection:
SC MS Cookery

2500 BCE - 2000

Items cover cookery, household management, medicine and remedies, including ancient texts.

Archive Series:
MS 24

16--

Contemporary pagination (irregular) 3-4, 10-11, 19-20, 23-48, 51-68, 69-71, 76-99, 104-109, 112-115, 122-127, 130-143, 148-167, 170-180. Commencing from the other end, modern ink pagination (irregular...

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MS 161

c. 1962?

Contains detailed bibliographical descriptions of selected items

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MS 162

1951-1957

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MS 163

c. 1962

The bibliography takes the form of a synoptic list of some 1,500 items, for the most part arranged chronologically. Also present are "Contents of case no. 1"; a handlist of the John F. Preston cookery...

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MS 1680

18--

Pages 1-129 contain culinary receipts; pages 130-137 contain medical receipts; (pp.9-14; 23-24; 28-30; 42-44; 56-58; 68-70; 75-78;91-108; 119-129; 138-148 are blank)

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MS 1694

1764-1778

Contains 54 manuscript recipes for the large scale production of cordials, dated between 1764 and 1778. They include one for producing 30 gallons of Wormwood cordial, and others for rectifying molasse...

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MS 2222

1824-1881

A manuscript notebook containing recipes, religious extracts and an account of a journey to Scotland in 1834. The book originally belonged to Nanny Clayton from Bierley in Bradford. She started the...

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MS 328

ca.1690

In 3 different hands. Bound in leather, with modern pencilled foliation

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MS 366

c.1797

Cookery book, with the sources of some of the recipes noted

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MS 37

c.1930

Black octavo note-book, lettered: Where is it?

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MS 38

c.1920

Black octavo note-book, with several blank leaves and a short index