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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARY / schoenberg center for electronic text & image

Manuscript Cookbook of D. Petre, 1705

Cover Page one

Summary: Manuscript recipe book, 1705, containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from back to front with book reversed. It contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals.

Physical description: 1 volume: 18cm; 106 leaves.

Provenance: Forms part of the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts

Cite as: U. of Penn Ms. Codex 624

Held by: Department of Special Collections, University of Pennysylvania Library

Table of Contents

As was customary for the period, this book is divided into two sections, accomplished by turning the book upside down and beginning again from the back. Though this strategy was intended to divide cookery from medicine, the categories are not always consistent nor evenly divided, such as Petre's book which has more medicinals than recipes.

For web presentation then, Petre's book is divided into two sections, each independent of the other. They are as follows:
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