Shelfmark
Ie4.5.41
Author
Title
The Tollemache book of secrets: a descriptive index and complete facsimile with an introduction and transcriptions together with Catherine Tollemache's receipts of pastery, confectionary &c by Jeremy Griffiths completed by A.S.G. Edwards.
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Book of secrets
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Receipts of pastery, confectionary &c
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : The Roxburghe Club, 2001.
Physical description
xx, 301p : facsims. ; 25cm.
Note
"Book of Secrets" is an informal miscellany of practical texts, apparently assembled for the use of the household at Helmingham Hall' - p. xiii.
Note
"May be dated ... to late fifteenth or early sixteenth century ... ownership inscription of Catherine Tollemache inside front wrapper indicates that the manuscript came into her possession some time after 1581" -- P. 2.
Note
Foreword by Nicolas Barker.
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Presented to the members of the Roxburghe Club by Lord Tollemache.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-301) and descriptive index (p. 15-39).
Note
"Translation of Treatise of fishing with an angle" -- P. [285]-293.
Note
Facsimiles in Latin and Middle English, with English translations and transcriptions.
Provenance
Given to Eton by Nicholas Kessler in 2007.
Binding
Publisher's 21st-century binding; spine title: "The book of secrets".
Copy-specific note
Previously I.Kes
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Cookery, English Early works to 1800.
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Home economics Early works to 1800.
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Manuscripts, English (Middle) Facsimiles.
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Manuscripts Facsimiles English.
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Fishing Early works to 1800.
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Commonplace-books.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B18494