Whiteaker, Elizabeth (& others)

Collection of cookery receipts, and a few medical receipts: in English. Inside the cover is written 'Elizabeth Whiteaker Book'. There are additions by several hands; on the last leaf before the blank section is an obituary notice of the Revd. Thomas Scott, Vicar of Wakefield, Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of York, who died 25 April 1729, apparently written by E. Whiteaker.

c. 1725

1 volume 100 ll. + 62 bl. ll. + 13 ll. 4to. 171/2 × 14 cm. Original panelled calf binding, damaged. Some leaves have been torn out near the beginning. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/219.