Also, on the 11 leaves before the cookery and medicinal receipts are, a poem by Robert Wilson (leaf 1), a quatrain (leaf 8) and copies of some legal documents including petitions and recognizances concerning Henry Kenney of Dublin, Esq., William Parsons and someone by the initials A.B. (leaves 2-11), as well as a receipt for saffron cakes (leaf 2) and a medicinal receipt (leaf 9v)
Notes
General notes
[xxii], 207 p
Recipes are numbered from 1 to 381; with pages missing, including recipes numbered: 183-186, part of 187, 247-248, part of 249, part of 260, 277-278, 288-292, 319-320, and 332-341
Food receipts numbered: 1-16, 169-308, 316-353, and 368-376. Medicinal receipts numbered: 17-168, 309, 312-315 and 354-367. Receipts for dyes numbered: 377-381
In different hands
Wilson poem first line: Shee said heere is my hand. Quatrain first line: The beautyes of that face of thine. Poems included in first line index
Also available as a digital reproduction
Formerly Folger MS Add 777
Acquired from Myers, November 16, 1981
Also known as
Extended title: Cookery and medicinal recipes 17th century