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Total number of records: 11

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	6
Books and printed items	5

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	11
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	6
English Literature	1

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
recipes	11
english poetry	6
commonplace-books	6
medicine	3
home economics	1
latin poetry, medieval and modern	1
cooking	1
children's drawings	1
conduct of life	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Ruscelli, Girolamo	3
Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565)	3
Ward, William	3
Alessio Piemontese	3
Ward, William (1534-1609)	3
Tempest, Jo	1
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)	1
Fairfax, Henry	1
Lupton, Thomas	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	3
From 1600	5
From 1700	2
From 1800	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	3
Up to 1699	4
Up to 1799	2
Up to 1899	2

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 102

Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1650-1730

Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 117

Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.

c.1720-1830

Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...

Archive Print Item:
BC 19c Bronte 6/BRO/R

The new family receipt book : containing one thousand truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy

Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)

1824

Anon., by M.E.K. Rundell.

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 25

Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose

c.1610-1620

Comprises Latin verses on ff.1v-6r, 9r-v; English verses on ff.6v-8r. Other contents: f.1, More to Henry VIII; f.32v,seven-point argument in English; ff.33-47, business, travel and custom-house and ce...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 43

Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax

1679-1682

Many references to Yorkshire localities, e.g. Denton, Tadcaster, Otley, Kettlewell, York. As well as poetry there is much in prose, including recipes. References to writer's brother B. and sister S.

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt q 9

Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest

c.1640-1650

Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five being signed or initialled by Tempest; a few pieces of Latin verse; London sermons etc. from various sources; three extracts from speeches before parliament f...

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BC MS Lt 96

Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.

c.1710-1750

Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.

Archive Print Item:
BC Gen/LUP

[A thousand notable things of sundry sorts, enlarged. Whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious. Whereunto is now added one hundred excellent conceits never before printed, very witty, usefull, and delightfull]

Lupton, Thomas

[1660]

Preface signed: Thomas Lupton. Wanting title-page. The pagination drops back from 282 to 281.

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BC GB C16/17/ALE

The seconde part of the Secretes of Maister Alexis of Piemont: by hym collected out of diuers excellent authors, and nevvly translated out of Frenche into Englishe. With a generall table of all matters contained in the saied booke. By Willyam Warde

Alessio Piemontese; Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565); Ward, William (1534-1609)

[1580]

A translation of part 2 of a French version of: De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese. Mostly in black letter. Publication date from STC. N. England's device is on the title-page and J. Wight'...

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BC GB C16/17/ALE

The third and last part of the Secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont : by him collected out of diuers excellent authors, with a necessary table in the ende, conteyning all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by William Ward

Alessio Piemontese; Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565); Ward, William (1534-1609)

1578

A translation of part 3 of a French version of: De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese. Mostly in black letter. With device of J. Wight on title-page. With nine final contents leaves. Signatu...

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BC GB C16/17/ALE

The Secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containyng excellente remedies against diuerse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat more enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the firste edition

Alessio Piemontese; Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565); Ward, William (1534-1609)

anno Domini 1580

Written originally in Italian and first published in 1555 (?). The first English edition appeared in 1558, printed by J. Kingston for N. England, whose device (McKerrow 138) is retained on the title-p...