Receipt book of Penelope Jephson [manuscript], 1671, 1674/5.

1 v.

Medical and cookery recipes. Sources often given, e.g. Sir Francis Prujean.

Part I: 79 leaves; Part II: 43 leaves (leaf 43 verso of Part I, leaf 79)
In several hands.
Table of contents at either end.
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Penelope Jephson married Simon Patrick, a prebend of Westminster and later bishop of Ely, in 1675, shortly after some of these receipts were added to her book. See The autobiography of Symon Patrick, 1839.

Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p. 36.

Joseph Lyon Miller, M.D., MS.
Formerly Folger MS Add 357.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 36)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.

Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.396
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V.a.396

MS Add 357