Cookery and medicinal recipes [manuscript], ca. 1730.
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Title
Cookery and medicinal recipes [manuscript], ca. 1730.
Description
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Associated name
Pennyman, Dorothy, 1698 or 1699-1754, compiler.
Sumner, Gillyat, 1793-1875, former owner.
Sumner, Gillyat, 1793-1875, former owner.
Note
The last leaf and one between Parts I and II are torn out. Many of the sources for these recipes are given; those for the medicinal ones are often attributed to well-known physicians.
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Historical background
The compiler was a daughter of William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury -- possibly Dorothy who married James Pennyman of Ormesby, Yorkshire; his mother came from Beverley. See family tree sketched by cataloger in Curatorial File.
Provenance
G. Sumner, Woodmansey, 1863 MS
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Edward G. Allen & Son, Ltd., March 1966.
Item Details
Call number
W.a.318
Folger accession
MS Add. 497