English Recipe Book, early 19th century

Collection of cookery, household and medical receipts in various hands. Authorities include Sir Richard Jebb (1729-1787), ff. 60v., 92r., 100r; Sir Henry Halford (1766-1844), f. 92r; `Dr Blake', f. 29v; `Dr Radcliffe', f. 32r; `Dr Warren', ff. 57v.-58r., 61r., 103v; `Dr Vaughan', f. 61r; `Dr Barclay', f. 89r; `Dr Hollingbeck', f. 91v; and `Dr McWhirter', ff. 104v., 107r. Several of the lay authorities are identified as from Edinburgh (e.g. ff. 31v., 90r.). A number of the later recipes are in French. There are some pressed flowers between ff. 107 and 109. A contemporary pencil sketch of a boy teasing a horse and military rider is loosely inserted at the front of the volume.

c. 1813-c. 1859

1 volume 1 volume: 198 x 165 mm. Vellum-covered boards, with remains of two brass clasps. Watermarks 1800.

Purchased from Janet Clarke, catalogue 38, item 35, 1999.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/223.

126 ff. (33-54, 65-67, 110-123 blank).

`Lady Leith's Cookery Book' inscribed on f. 126v. in a later hand.