University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 823

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1675

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 823

Title:

Commonplace book and recipe book.

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

[after 1567]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 43 leaves : paper ; 198 x 141 mm bound to 204 x 143 mm

Former Owner(s):

Aresty, Esther Bradford

Esther Bradford Aresty WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Two leaves are torn out near the end but foliation is continuous.
Origin: Written in England in the 16th century.
Foliation: Paper, 43; [1-13], 1-29, [43]; nearly contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto, beginning on f. 14; this foliation corresponds to entries in the index on the preceding pages; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 23 February 1959, lot 322, to Dawson.
Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1992.

Keyword:

recipes

commonplace books

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, English

cookbooks

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Cooking, English

Early works

Hertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9929766543503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3587z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania