Recueil de différentes recettes

After the strictly medical receipts (p. 184) there are entries for cookery, gardening, hunting 'remèdes et secrets diverses', taxidermy, dyeing processes and firework making. The latest date in the text is 1784 on p. 40, though this is certainly a later addition.

c. 1775

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.) + pp. xvi. + 398. 4to. 23 × 171/2 cm. Original calf-gilt binding. Very neatly written, with signatures, and possibly prepared for the press. Pp. 367-end are blank.

Purchased 1920.

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/202.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).