English Receipt-Book: 16th century

Date:
Late 16th century
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English Receipt-Book: 16th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Wellcome Library; GB.

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Description

Collection of medical receipts, with some additional entries by slightly later hands, including a few cookery receipts. Written in a neat Elizabethan italic hand: the additions are by various hands of the early 17th cent. The cookery receipts are found on the first three unnumbered leaves at the beginning.

Publication/Creation

Late 16th century

Physical description

1 volume
6 leaves (last bl.). + 156 pages 4to. 20 x 15 cm Modern re-binding in old vellum. Ppage 25-36, 57-62, 127/8, and two leaves between page 1 and page 7 are wanting: lower part of page 105/6 torn away, margins and corners frayed, slight staining throughout.

Language note

In English.

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Location of original

Wellcome Library; GB.
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