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Receipt book of Rebeckah Winche [manuscript], ca. 1666.
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1 v. ; 32 x 21 cm
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Scope and content
Collection of cookery and medical recipes. Includes index to recipes on p. xi-xiii, sorted into the following categories: "distiled waters & Cordials," Cordiall pouders & Electuarys perfumes," "Oyles & salues," "Cookery," "Preserues," "Sirups & conserues," "Waters & Cordialls," "Pouders." Dated the year after the Great Plague, the manuscript opens with Mrs. Hobby's "Aqua Mirabilis" with several other water remedies following ("The Lady Hewet's Water" (p. 2), "Plague Water" (p. 3), "Sir Theador Mikerns Surfit Water" (p. 3), "Snail Watter" (p. 8), "A Drinke for the Plague when it first Sees any one" (p. 9)). Includes an important early recipe for chocolate (p. 123). Recipes for blackberry jelly and marmalade on small leaf laid in between p. 64 and 65, written in a much later hand. Also includes records of births, baptisms, and marriages (p. v, viii-ix), specifically those of Rebeckah Winche's daughters Judith (who married Sir Humphry Forster of Aldermaston) and Rebecca (who married Sir Thomas Lawley) and their children.
Note
Signed and dated "Rebeckah Winche 1666," but the family notes refer to events from 1654-1705.
Pagination: p. [i-xiv], 1-28, 31-42, 61-80, 101-126, 151-154, 203-204. The index includes no references to p. 29-30, 43-60, 81-100 or 127-150, suggesting the manuscript was complete as intended when the compiler indexed it, ca. 1666.
Prior to conservation, the manuscript had seven loose leaves. The original position and sequence of five of the leaves was determined through analysis of stain patterns from the leather turn-ins of the boards and off-setting media. These leaves were subsequently bound into the front and back of the volume. The final two loose leaves did not match the paper stock of the manuscript, and were bound in separately at the back of the volume, separated by a blank leaf of new paper. During treatment, new endleaves were added to protect the manuscript leaves from abrasion by the boards. Treatment was completed in March 2015.
Pagination: p. [i-xiv], 1-28, 31-42, 61-80, 101-126, 151-154, 203-204. The index includes no references to p. 29-30, 43-60, 81-100 or 127-150, suggesting the manuscript was complete as intended when the compiler indexed it, ca. 1666.
Prior to conservation, the manuscript had seven loose leaves. The original position and sequence of five of the leaves was determined through analysis of stain patterns from the leather turn-ins of the boards and off-setting media. These leaves were subsequently bound into the front and back of the volume. The final two loose leaves did not match the paper stock of the manuscript, and were bound in separately at the back of the volume, separated by a blank leaf of new paper. During treatment, new endleaves were added to protect the manuscript leaves from abrasion by the boards. Treatment was completed in March 2015.
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Ken Spelman Rare Books, September 2009.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018.Form and Function: The Genius of the Book.
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V.b.366
Folger accession
265341