Early modern recipe books

About

Early modern recipe books
This project, a collaboration between the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and the Wellcome Collection in London, contains digitized manuscript recipe books from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. It is funded by a grant to the Folger from the University of Sheffield as part of the AHRC-funded US-UK Food Digital Scholarship Network. The goal of the project is to provide a freely available platform for repositories to make their early modern manuscript recipe books available for crowdsourced transcription.
Wellcome Collection: John and Joan Gibson: medical recipe book (MS311)

Wellcome Collection: John and Joan Gibson: medical recipe book (MS311)

A booke of medicines. With other medical receipts, and a number of cookery receipts by Joan Gibson and by a second Joanna Gibson. On the first leaf 'John Gibson 1634. A booke of Medicines', below this 'Joanne Gibson. Ars longa, vita brevis. 1669', and under this 'Joanna Gibson 1708'. On...

Collaboration is restricted.

92 pages: 20% complete (74% transcribed, 53% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744) (MS.8903)

Wellcome Collection: Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744) (MS.8903)

English manuscript book of medicinal and culinary recipes owned by Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744), with ownership inscription on the inside front cover. The volume is closely associated with the contemporary Ann Fanshawe recipe manuscript held by the Wellcome Library...

228 pages: 26% complete (85% transcribed, 59% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)

Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)

Manuscript containing domestic / culinary recipes, with calligraphic ownership statement, Mary Hawker, inscribed on inner leave along with the date 1691. No further details about Mary Hawker are known. The volume is 16 x 22 cms and 26 pages in total; as well as some additional loose recipe...

95 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Wellcome Collection: Miller, Mrs. Mary (MS.3547)

Wellcome Collection: Miller, Mrs. Mary (MS.3547)

Her Booke of Receipts. A collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and household receipts. There are some additions by later 17th and early 18th cent. hands. On the verso of the first leaf is an inscription 'Mrs. Mary Criche', apparently written by the same hand as that of the...

85 pages: 10% complete (100% transcribed, 89% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century (MS.4054)

Wellcome Collection: Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century (MS.4054)

Collection of receipts for cordials, preserves, cookery and medicines. By several hands. Contents: Receits for preserving (pp. 1-61); stilling (pp. 71-92); [cosmetics (etc.)] (pp. 109-115); surgery and phisick (pp. 120-176); to make wine and other liquors (pp. 180-193); for syrups (pp....

161 pages: 47% complete (100% transcribed, 53% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Saint John, Johanna (MS4338)

Wellcome Collection: Saint John, Johanna (MS4338)

Johanna St. John Her Booke. The date 1680 is found on Leaf A 3 and F 7: there are a few additions by late 17th century hands.

207 pages: 33% complete (92% transcribed, 59% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: The Regiment of Healthe (MS674)

Wellcome Collection: The Regiment of Healthe (MS674)

With separate sections on medical astrology, temperaments, plague, an antidotary, surgical remedies, and an unfinished herbal. With a number of medical receipts, etc., by different and later hands. pp.7-12: blank. p.13: Medical astrology, temperatments, etc. Begins: "Almightie God ffather...

Collaboration is restricted.

290 pages: 5% complete (39% transcribed, 33% needs review)
Displaying works 31 - 38 of 38 in total

Incomplete Works