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Brotherton Collection6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
Cookery Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive1

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commonplace-books9
recipes9
english poetry7
cooking3
latin poetry, medieval and modern1
home economics1
conduct of life1
account books1
british1
children's drawings1

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Walker, Margaret1
Tempest, Jo1
Fairfax, Henry1
Bolt, Jane1
Gutch, M P1

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GUDGEON Collection

1847-1868

Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...

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Commonplace book containing culinary recipes and various household directions, in various hands, commenced by Jane Bolt in 1694 and completed by M.P. Gutch in 1841

Bolt, Jane

1694-1841

Text from f.33v to end inverted; signature of M.P. Gutch on f.1r; signatures of Jane Bolt on ff.1r and 2r; recipes dated 1840 on ff.1v and 2v and dated 1841 on ff.96r and v

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Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker

Walker, Margaret

1778-1869

At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...

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BC MS Lt 25, f. 6v: Fulke Greville's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 43, f. 34v: Henry Fairfax's poem
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax

Fairfax, Henry

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.

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BC MS Lt q 9, f.29v:
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Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest

Tempest, Jo

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 102, f. 3r: The opening of
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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...

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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...

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BC MS Lt 96, f. 119v:
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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.

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