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Add MS 56248
- Record Id:
- 032-002000497
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002000497
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00035f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 56248
- Title:
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RECIPE BOOK: recipe collection of Mary, Lady Dacres, for cookery and domestic medicine; 1666-1696. Partly autograph? Most of the cookery recipes are for fruit tarts and other desserts, cakes, preserves and wines. The book was used for cookery recipes through ff. 1-57, and for medical recipes through 109v-58 rev. The inscription to Lady Dacres, who may have been the wife of Sir Robert Dacres of Cheshunt, co. Hertf., occurs on f. 2. The volume was formerly in the Patent Office Library. At f. i is a slip from the Patent Office catalogue where the item is numbered '(3, 174)', see also ff. i verso and 1. Also numbered in pencil '637*' (f. i) and 18/F (f. ii verso). Transferred from the Department of Printed Books with Add. 56249-56250, 30 April 1970.
Paper; ff. ii+109+1*+105*. 198 x 155mm. Several late 17th-cent. hands.
- Scope & Content:
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Recipes: Medicine and Surgery: Mary Dacres, wife of(?) Sir R Dacres: Cookery: Recipe book of Mary, Lady Dacres: 1666-1696.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002000497
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002000497
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1666
- End Date:
- 1696
- Date Range:
- 1666-1696
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
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patent Office Library: Owned, early 20th cent.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dacres, Mary, wife of Sir R Dacres?
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