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Collection: Early modern recipe books

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Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenStone Croppe = sedum-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenUmbelicus veneris = pennywort-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenRepercussive - Medicine. Of a medicine or treatment: that drives a morbid humour, fluid, etc., back to its source or away or inwards from a swollen or diseased part; that suppresses an infection, swelling, eruption, etc. Now historical. OED-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Buttenthere is a little diagram of the glass covered with parchment method mentioned in the final recipe of the second column.-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten'que non credo' - which I do not believe (Latin)-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten'Alute' could be Aluterus scriptus, commonly known as scrawled filefish, broomtail filefish or scribbled leatherjacket, is a marine fish belonging to the family Monacanthidae-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenAlliter = Aliter means "otherwise" in Latin-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten(y)impostumation - an abscess or swelling filled with pus-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenLine 20: m., misc., misce, misceo -ere = mix; misceantur, let them (ingredients) be mixed-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenLine 23, first column: ā, āā, ān., ana = of each; e.g., folia senae et folia acetosae ana Mi, senna leaves and sorrel leaves, of each one handful-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaLines 45-47 and 49-50 are within a diagram-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
Juliaʒ means dram-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
Julia♃ means Thursday (ruling planet Jupiter)-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThe heading in line 7 becomes abbreviated in line 8 but I'm not sure what it means.-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
Juliaunidentified symbol bottom right-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
Julia eygft and twety or nyne and twenty means 28 or 29-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaCorpus Christi day is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
Julia♃ is the symbol for Jupiter also associated with Thursday-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Katy Mair
Katy MairSymbol for half in apothecaries weights often looks like a combined fs. From https://www.apothecariesweights.com/: The Symbol for “half ” also has problems and appears variously as “ss”, “fs” or in script writing “fs“The Symbol for “half ” also ha...-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaTitle features a symbol that is possibly the symbol for aquarius-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
leahastbury
leahastburyAlliter means otherwise-MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten'Bezor' could be 'Bezoar', which are retained concretions of undigested foreign material that accumulate and coalesce within the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly in the stomach. Originally described in the stomach of ruminant animals such as ... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenTormentile could be 'Tormentil', a name for some species of Potentilla, or cinquefoils; the name is generally only used for Potentilla erecta, known as the Common Tormentil. The Tormentil is a common, low-growing and creeping perennial of acid ... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenRewe could be 'Rue' described by the OED as a southern European plant species ‘which has yellow flowers and bitter, strongly scented feathery leaves, and was formerly much used for medicinal purposes’. Spelling was not a fixed feature in the early... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenCardish could be 'Cardus' or 'Carduus' is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, one of two genera considered to be true thistles. Also known commonly as plumeless thistles. https://wshc.org.uk/lacock/images/PDFs/2664.3.1K.5-Stephen-... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenBittanie could be 'Betony' or 'Stachys officinalis', common hedgenettle, betony, bishopwort; a grassland herb with pink flower spikes commonly used in herbal medicine. Referenced in Culpeper, Nicholas (1652). The English Physitian: OR An Astrolo... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenVenus Treacle - another name for 'Theriac', an ancient multi-ingredient preparation; originating as a cure for the bites of serpents, mad dogs and wild beasts, it later became an antidote to all known poisons. The name theriac (treacle), (Greek th... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenAngelico - Angelica, a genus of about 60 species of tall biennial and perennial herbs, used for flavouring and for medicine. Crystallised stripes of angelica are green and can be used for cake decoration and to flavour (and colour) gin. https://ws... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten'Bolearmoneck' could refer to Armenian Bole, a historic medicinal clay used as an astringent, prescribed against diarrhea, dysentery, and bleeding https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25966606/ - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenThis recipe is very similar to recipe no.38 in Henry William Lewer's MS. book 'A Book of Simples' (c.1700-1750). Digitised/transcribed by Project Gutenberg, 2017. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/53951/pg53951-images.html#A_BOOK_OF_SIMPLES ... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten'Methredate', could be 'mithridate' which according to the OED is 'Any of various medicinal preparations, usually in the form of an electuary compounded of many ingredients, believed to be a universal antidote to poison or a panacea.' - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenA 'white pott' or 'whitepott' could refer to a bread pudding layered with apples and currants, as listed in the recipe book of Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent (c.1600-1630 with later additions). https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN... - Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartinOn this entire page the letter "e" seems to be missing and seems to be replaced with an "i", however I changed that in the transcription to reflect e's where it makes sense within a word/where I noticed them in the original text as there is a visu... - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThere are two words that I'm not entirely sure about on lines 7 and 8. I tried to find them in the OED but what I think it is is not bringing up results. I have marked them as 'unclear' so another subscriber can have a go.-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsIn recipe 2, there is an abbreviation I am not familiar with.-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartin"drinke to purge the blood" line 1: should be "when it hath done wor=" instead of "when it has Doone" - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartinEnd of section 1: [] could be "a dried [Toade dried] in May" - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartinSection 1, line 6: should be "Vinegar of Roses" instead of "Vinegar or Roses" - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartin"Drink of the Liver" line 12: missing "out" in transcription, correction to "houlding the mouth out of the Barrel" - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartinline 13 of the first section: % was used in place of 5 in the transcription - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
BellamyMartin
BellamyMartinline 8 of the first section: "houre" on the original document is spelled as "our" in the transcription - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsAnother instance of the abbreviation I am unfamiliar with (possibly for penny)-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThere is an abbreviation I am not confident of; it may be for a penny. The author also uses the letter 'Æ'. I have transcribed it as such but just wanted to check if that is alright or if it should be transcribed as 'Ae'-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThere is a word that looks like 'anatampane' in recipe 91 but when searching for this to confirm, this does not come up as any plant/ingredient name. I have marked it as 'unclear' in case another transcriber can recognise what it actually says.-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThere is the same abbreviation that I don't recognise; I believe it is for a penny but I am not sure.-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThere is an abbreviation I am unfamiliar with on line 25, likely for the word 'pence' but not entirely sure. I am also unsure about the title for recipe 80 (line 41). It looks like 'rumde' but I'm not entirely sure.-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsThere is an abbreviation I'm not familiar with on this page on line 24-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
KitRichards
KitRichardsHow do I show that the list is in two columns?-Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)Early modern recipe books
Pamela Forde
Pamela FordeSome characters lost at the edge of the image on the right sideUntitled Page 46Royal College of Physicians: A collection of medical receipts (MS504)Early modern recipe books
Pamela Forde
Pamela FordePage 32 but number not visible as top left corner of page folder overUntitled Page 36Royal College of Physicians: A collection of medical receipts (MS504)Early modern recipe books
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