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Sources Guide: Domestic medicine and receipt books - 18th century

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

Elizabeth Sleigh and Felicia Whitfeld, Collection of medical receipts, 1647-1722 MS.751

Mary Bent, Cookery book, with a few medical receipts, 1664-1729 MS.1127

Jane Newton and others , Medical and cookery receipts, c.1675-c.1725 MS.1325

Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, Collection of medical receipts, c. 1675-c.1710 MS.1340

Martha Hodges and others, Collection of cookery receipts, including a few medical receipts, c. 1675-1725 MS.2844

Elizabeth Okeover and others, Collection of medical receipts, c. 1675-c. 1725 MS.3712

Mrs Elizabeth Hirst and others, Collection of medical and cookery receipts, 1684-c.1725 MS.2840

Frances Springatt and others , Collection of cookery and medical receipts, 1686-1823 MS.4683

Mrs Meade and others, Collection of medical, veterinary and cookery receipts, 1688-1727 MS.3500

Amy Eyton and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and household receipts, 1691-1738 MS.2323

Elizabeth Browne/ Penelope Humphreys/ Sarah Studman/ Mary Dawes, 'Book of Receipts', collection of cookery and medical recipes, c.1697-C19th MS.7851

Miss Shaw, Collection of medical and cookery receipts, C17th/18th MS.7721

Unidentified author [initials J A ], Collection of cookery and medical receipts Later 17th - early 18th century MS.7745

Anon, Collection of medical, culinary and household recipes, in various hands, C17th-early C18th MS.7818

Anon, Collection of medical recipes, later C17th-18th MS.7822

Dorothea Repp, Collection of cookery, medical, veterinary and household receipts, early C18th MS.7788

Sarah Palmer and others, Collection of medical receipts, early C18th MS.3740

Mary Preston, Collection of cookery and medical receipts, early C18th MS.3995

Mrs Katharine Palmer: 'A Collection of ye best Receipts… in Cookery, preserving, and all manner of Housewifery, physick & Chirurgery’, 1700-39 MS.7976

Sarah Nott and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, 1701-c. 1820 MS.3696

Lady Catherine Fitzgerald, Collection of cookery receipts, with some medical receipts, 1703-7 MS.2367

Elizabeth Jenner, 'Her Book...for makeing Waters and Syrups and other Physical Remedies', 1706 MS.3029

Hannah Hickes, 'Her Book of Receaits...', 1709 MS.2834

Anon female (?),'A book of phisick', 1710-25 MS.1320

Elizabeth Fuller and others, Collection of cookery and medical receipts, 1712-1822 MS.2450

Letitia Owen, Book of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, c. 1715 MS.3730

Maria Theresia von Rodwitz, 'Allerhandt güet undt reecht befundene von einmach Artzneyen, farben unndt kocherayen Sachen...', 1716 MS.4240

Mme la presidente de Maliverny, 'Livre des remedes...', 1719-39, MS.3409; 'Les secres...', c. 1725 MS.3410

Deborah Haddock 'Mrs Deborah Haddock. Her Book', culinary, medical and household recipes, 1720-[?] MS.7987

Jane Hammond, Recipe book, 1724 MS.7124

Anon, Collection of medical and cookery receipts in a variety of early 18th-century hands. Second quarter, C18th MS.7746

Charlotte Van Lore Johnstone, 'Receipt-book', c. 1725 MS.3087

Elizabeth Whiteaker and others, Collection of cookery receipts, and a few medical receipts, c. 1725 MS.4997

Deborah Branch, 'Deborah Branch her book', 1725 MS.1343

Anon females, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical remedies, c. 1725-c. 1825 MS.1821

Mme Lievain, 'Trésor de Santé', 1725-40 MS.3258

Jane Lowdham, Recipe book, 1729 MS.7073

Sarah Tully, Lady Hoare [and others]: "Book of Receipts for Cookery and Pastry & c", including medical, veterinary and household recipes, 1732—[?] MS.8687

Mrs Frances Rawson, Collection of cookery and medical receipts in various hands, c. 1734-C18th MS.7747

Rebecca Tallamy, 'Her book of Receipts', 1735-8 MS.4759

Jane Foster and others, Collection of cookery receipts, followed by a few medical receipts, 1739-94 MS.2416

Mrs Jackson, Collection of cookery and medical receipts, 1743 MS.3008

Anne Lisle, Collection of cookery, medical, veterinary and domestic receipts, 1748 MS.3294-5

Elizabeth Thompson, Collection of medical, cookery and household recipes, 1749-[?] MS.7850

Harriet Marsham, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, mid-C18th MS.3460

Anon Irish cookery book, with a few medical recipes, mid-C18th MS.8042

Elizabeth Michel, 'Her book of recepts', mid-C18th MS.3539

Anne Neville, Collection of medical receipts, mid-C18th MS.3685

Mary Percival, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, mid-C18th MS.3828

Jane Young, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, mid-C18th MS.5102

Magdelaine Hanuche, Collection of medical receipts (in French), c. 1750-75 MS.2777

Mrs Finger and others, Collection of medical, cookery and household receipts, c. 1750-1800 MS.2363

Esther Hanmer and others, Receipt book, c. 1750-1825 MS.2767

Anna Katharina Haydtin, 'Medicin Buch...', 1756 MS.2797

Mary Foster and others, Receipt book, 1758 MS.2410

Frances Rous, Collection of cookery, medical and household receipts, 1767 MS.4288

Elizabeth Grey, Phisical receipts, extract from Eliz Grey's Choice Manual (1653), c. 1775 MS.2630

Mrs Jones and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, c. 1775-c. 1835 MS.3088

Lucy Culley and others, 'Lucy Culley's Receipt Book', c. 1775-1858 MS.1974

Eleanor Owen, Collection of cookery receipts, followed by a few medical receipts, 1779-96 MS.3729

Eliza Anna Smith and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few household, medical and veterinary receipts, 1782-1850 MS.4632

Mrs HO, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, 1783 MS.3700

Lady Eleanor Dundas, Collections of medical and cookery receipts, c. 1785 MS.2242

Miss Myddleton and others, 'Receipts copied from Miss Myddleton's Book...', 1785-1818 MS.3656

Catherine Rye, 'Her receipt Book', 1786 MS.4322

Harriot Clinton, Collection of medical and cookery receipts and memoranda, 1788? MS.7720

Ann Evans, née Ward, Collection of medical and cookery receipts and memoranda, c. 1788-1831 MS.7732

Anne White and others, 'Cookery book. Procuring diseases', 1789-1845 MSS 4992-3

Mary Anne Fawcett, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, 1795-1832 MS.2339

Mary Ann Anstey and Diana Matilda Fenwick, Cookery book, with some medical and household receipts, 1798-1828 MS.960

Anon Coventry housewife, Medical receipt book, late C18th-early C19th MS.7366

Recipes, mainly culinary (found loose inside MS.7747) C18th-19th MS.7748

M Mascall, 'Book of Recipes', Collection of medical, veterinary and household recipes, late C18th-early C19th MS.7875

16th & 17th century

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