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Perrott, Mary (fl.1695). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Perrott, Mary (fl.1695)
- Perrott, Mary (fl.1695)
- Date:
- 1695
- Reference:
- MS.3834
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Receipt Book.
The first five leaves contain 'Medicines', the remainder consists of Cookery receipts, some by a different, but contemporary hand.
On the verso of the original cover is a cut-down leaf containing the name 'Katherine Perrott' in calligraphic script, within a decorated border, but the first leaf before the beginning of the text is inscribed 'Mary Perrotts Book 1695'.
Publication/Creation
1695
Physical description
1 volume 20 ll. 4to. 181/2 × 141/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Rebound in modern blind-stamped calf binding, with coat of arms in gold on the upper cover, and initials 'G.O.F.' Binder's printed label inside the lower cover inscribed: 'Bound by Thomas. 7 Upper Marylebone St. Fitzroy Square'.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1934.
Ownership note
Armorial photographic book-plate of George Oakeley Fisher, with inscription 'Ex libris Bibliothecae Domesticae'.
Finding aids
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).
Location of duplicates
This recipe book has been digitised and images are linked to the catalogue record. In addition, a microfilm copy is held as AMS/MF/206.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 66865