Glossary: cookery, including joints of animals

Glossary of terms compiled from Eighteenth century English cookery-books. An alphabetical list, with dates of the books in which they are found. With an unfinished draft A-F only (16 ff.). Author's holograph MSS. Ff. 63-72 contains the names of the joints and parts of animals, etc. used in cookery in a separate alphabet. The two unfoliated leaves give a list of the books from which the words were extracted, all except one are said to be in the compiler's collection.

c. 1900-1925

1 volume 3 ll. (first bl.). + 72 ff. + 3 bl. ll. + 16 ff. + 8 bl. ll. 4to. 26 × 201/2 cm. Original boards. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1931 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Accession Numbers 73733C, 73733D.

From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery-books.

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).