Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

ca. 1730s-1740s

Description

This unusually tall volume (34 cm) of 116 written pages contains 373 culinary and medical recipes written in several eighteenth century hands. It bears the ownership inscription of an individual named Johann Barber, who apparently possessed the book in 1740, for there is a note at the bottom of page 33, which reads: "Eliz: Ferrier. Scriptum a me Johann Barber, Anno Dom 1740." He may also be the author a note appearing on page 69: "Approved by repeated experiment this year 1733." At some point, perhaps later, the book came into the possession of the 9th Earl of Norfolk, Edward Howard (b. 1685, ruled 1732-1777), for the book contains his bookplate: Edward Duke of Norfolk, Earle Marshall of England. Many of the recipes are copied from print sources, including Richard Bradley's highly popular cookbook The Country Housewife and Lady's Director (6th edition, 1732-1736) and naval surgeon John Moyle's Chirurgus Marinius: or the Sea-Chirurgion.