Medicinal and cookery recipes of Mary Baumfylde and others [manuscript], 1626 June, 1702-1758.
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Medicinal and cookery recipes of Mary Baumfylde and others [manuscript], 1626 June, 1702-1758.
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[1], 76 leaves.
Scope and content
Begun June 1626. Later additions, some 1702-1758, by Katherine Foster, probably the same who signed herself in 1707 as Catherine Thatcher of St. Mary at Hill, Billingsgate [London], and who may have been related to the original owner. A Henry Foster whose daughter was named Catherine, had married into the Bampfield family of Devon and Somerset before 1678. On leaves 10 and 61v are two verses, one signed by Catherine Thatcher, 1707.
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Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
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Publications about material
"Early Modern Recipes in a Digital World: The Baumfylde Manuscript" in Early Modern Studies Journal, vol. 7, 2021.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1997-1998. The Housewife's Rich Cabinet (catalog p. 111)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.
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Cover-to-cover images and transcription of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.456
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.456
Transcription of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.456 (pdf)
Case study: "Early Modern Recipes in a Digital World: The Baumfylde Manuscript" in Early Modern Studies Journal, vol. 7, 2021.
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.456
Transcription of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.456 (pdf)
Case study: "Early Modern Recipes in a Digital World: The Baumfylde Manuscript" in Early Modern Studies Journal, vol. 7, 2021.
Item Details
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V.a.456
Folger accession
MS Add 568