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.

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.

Description compiled by Ross MacFarlane based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.

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).