Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Petre, D.

[Recipe book] [manuscript].

[England], 1705.

106 leaves : paper ; 178 x 147 mm. bound to 180 x 150 mm.

Recipe book containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from front to back; medical recipes comprise the larger section and are written from back to front with book reversed. Contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals. One leaf with recipe for "Artificial Asses Milk" is laid in after the cookery section

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Attribution from f. 1v, D Petre Her Book. A different hand has added "oro:" behind the "D" (perhaps Dorothy or Dorothea) and added the date, 1705. Attribution is difficult to decipher; in her catalog Janet Theophano has used the attribution Doro Petrie.

Pagination: Paper, 107; [1-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary pagination from front: [iv], 1-53. Contemporary pagination from reverse: [iv], 1-75. 34 blank leaves in between. There are a number of stubs for pages in the middle that appear to have been cut or torn out.

Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in England, 1705.

UPenn Ms. Codex 624

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 624