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Total number of records: 19

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	14
Archives	5

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Cookery Collection	16
Incunabula	3

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
cooking, english	6
cooking, italian	6
medicine, popular	5
recipes	5
cooking	5
home economics	2
cooking, french	2
pharmacy	1
royal households	1
medicine	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Platina (1421-1481)	6
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)	2
Lister, Dame Mary (1625-1635)	1
Laurentius	1
King James I (1566-1625)	1
Massialot, Francois	1
Laurentius De Aquila	1
May, Robert (1588-)	1
Umber, Sibylinus	1
Woolley, Hannah (1670-)	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1400	3
From 1500	3
From 1600	13

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	3
Up to 1599	3
Up to 1699	13

Archive Series:
MS 24

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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MS 328

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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MS 73

Regulations for the household of James I

1616

List of foods and instructions for their preparation

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MS 48

French cookery book

16--

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

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MS 621

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

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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Cookery A/RAB

The whole body of cookery dissected, taught, and fully manifested, methodically, artificially, and according to the best tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. Or, a sympathy of all varieties in natural compounds in that mysterie. Wherein is contained certain bills of fare for the seasons of the year, for feasts and common diets. Whereunto is annexed a second part of rare receipts of cookery: with certain useful traditions. With a book of preserving, conserving and candying, after the most exquisite and newest manner: delectable for ladies and gentlewomen

Rabisha, William

1673

Signatures a and b differ from those in another 1673 edition, and sig.b is without page numbers. "Books printed for Mris. Calvert": p.[8] at end.

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Strong Room for. fol. 1475/PLA

Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus

Platina (1421-1481); Laurentius de Aquila; Umber, Sibylinus

Idibus Iuniis Mcccclxxv. [13 June 1475]

Signatures: [*⁴ a¹⁰ b-l⁸] Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf [4v] reads: Viri doctissimi Platynæ opusculum de obsoniis ac honesta voluptate: impressum Venetiis: Labore & diligentia La...

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Strong Room for. 4to 1487/PLA

Di Platina, d'la ho[n]esta voluptate [et] valitudine: ad lo a[m]plissimo [et] doctissimo signore B. Rouerella di S[an]cto Cleme[n]te. p[re]te cardi[n]ale, libro p[ri]mo

Platina (1421-1481); Ashburner, Walter (1864-1936); Hieronymus de Sanctis

M. cccclxxx.vij. a di. xv. de Decembrio. [15 December 1487]

Signatures: [*]⁴ a-h⁸ i¹⁰. Place and date of printing from colophon. Colophon on i9v reads: Qui finisse Platina di li obsonnij stampata in Venetia nel anno del signore. M. cccclxxx.vij. a d...

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Strong Room for. 4to 1499/PLA

Libellus Platine De honesta uoluptate ac ualitudine

Platina (1421-1481); Benedetti, Giovanni Antonio de' (1492-1511); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883); Gaisford, Thomas (1779-1855); Dunn, George (1864-1912); Hodgkin, John (1857-1930)

Mccccxcix. die uero.xi. mensis Maii. [11 May 1499]

Signatures: a-m⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on m2v reads: Habes splendidissime lector uiri doctissimi Platinæ opusculum de obsoniis : de honesta uoluptate ac ualitudine diligenterq[ue] Bo...

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Cookery A/MAY

The accomplisht cook, or the art and mystery of cookery : wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, than hath been publisht in any language

May, Robert (1588-)

1678

Frontispiece portrait of May. Numerous errors in paging. Includes index.

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Cookery B/LAV

Le vray cuisinier françois, enseignant la manière de bien apprester & assaisonner toutes sortes de viandes grasses & maigres, légumes & pastisseries en perfection, &c. Augumenté d'un nouveau confiturier, qui apprend à bien faire toutes sortes de confitures, tant sèches que liquides... & autres délicatesses de bouche. Ensemble d'une table alphabétique des matières que sont traitées dans tout le livre

1682

Earlier editions have title: Le cuisinier françois.

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Cookery D/PLA

B. Platinae Cremonensis, De honesta voluptate. De ratione victus, & modo vivendi. De natura rerum & arte coquendi libri X

Platina (1421-1481)

1529

Colophon reads: Coloniae apud Eucharium Ceruicornum, procurante M. Godefrido Hittorpio ciue Coloni. Mense Septem. anni.M.D. XXIX.