A book of choice receipts collected from several famous authors a great part in monasteries and often experimented as to a great number of them [manuscript], ca. 1675.

1 v.

A collection of medicinal recipes, with a few cookery and household recipes, arranged roughly alphabetically by subject. Thomas Sheppey, O.S.F.S. often mentions his sources, several of them well known physicians of this time and earlier, such as Dr. [Gideon?] Harvey, [Robert?] Floud, Sir Theodore Mayerne and Sir Kenelm Digby. One of his chief sources is a manuscript of Lady Byron. Sheppey sometimes gives the cost of the ingredients of a remedy and contrasts it with the price charged by the apothecaries "as much as they can." At the end he adds a list of the names of the chief Rosicrucians. A later hand has tipped in some pages of recipes, ca. 1750

[2], 1-46, 187-190, 47-178, 178-180, 182-186, 191-463 p. with 19 leaves tipped in.
Index.

Joseph Lyon Miller M.D., MS (see leaf tipped in between p. 208 and 209).
Formerly Folger MS Add 546.

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V.a.452

MS Add 546