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Total number of records: 340

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items332
Archives7
Objects1

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Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection340
Incunabula1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking47
cooking, english32
medicine30
food24
cooking, italian21
medicine, popular20
home economics17
recipes12
agriculture10
canning and preserving10

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PlaceCount
Rome3
Rome (Italy)1
Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)12
W. M12
Nunez, Luis (1555-1645?)10
Pisanelli, Baldassare (1583-)10
Platina (1421-1481)9
Kent, Elizabeth Grey Countess of (1581-1651)8
Jar, W7
Plat, Sir Hugh (1552-1611?)7
Woolley, Hannah (1670-)7
Bonnefons, Nicolas De6

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From 1500108
From 1600230

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Up to 1599106
Up to 1699232
Recipes for cookery and household remedies
Archive Series

Recipes for cookery and household remedies

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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Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes
Archive File

Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes

ca.1690

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

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French cookery book
Archive File

French cookery book

16--

Two pages of French verse, followed by 15 pages of recipes apparently in unrhymed verse

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Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'
Archive File

Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'

Lister, Dame Mary (1625-1635)

16--

Anonymous recipe book, known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book', containing culinary and medical recipes, household inventories and religious notes, in various hands. Includes: (1) inventories an...

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Regulations for the household of James I
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Regulations for the household of James I

1616

List of foods and instructions for their preparation

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Archive Object Item

Seated figure of a goddess

2500BCE-500 CE

A framed painting on plaster, labelled: "Seated figure of a goddess (Sekhet?), the head surmounted by a disc round which is twined the solar uraeus. Before her stands a figure with upraised arms, mak...

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Book of the Dead

1200BCE-850 BCE

Framed papyrus, labelled: "Papyrus No. 2. Book of the Dead, written for Jed-Khensu, who bears the title of "Priest (nab) of Amen, scribe of the temple of Amen and scribe of the temple of Mut". The s...

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Archive Print Item

Acetaria : A discourse of sallets

Evelyn, John (1620-1706)

1699

By John Evelyn.

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Acetaria : A discourse of sallets

Evelyn, John (1620-1706)

1699

By John Evelyn.

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Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme

Estienne, Charles (1504-1564); LiƩbault, Jean (1535-1596); Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)

1616

Includes indexes.

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Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme

Estienne, Charles (1504-1564); LiƩbault, Jean (1535-1596); Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)

1616

Includes indexes.

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