About

This project, a collaboration between the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and the Wellcome Collection in London, contains digitized manuscript recipe books from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. It is funded by a grant to the Folger from the University of Sheffield as part of the AHRC-funded US-UK Food Digital Scholarship Network. The goal of the project is to provide a freely available platform for repositories to make their early modern manuscript recipe books available for crowdsourced transcription.
Works
London Metropolitan Archives: Recipe Book (CLC/270/MS00558)
A collection of 17th century recipes, in some cases with the name of the donor, which by 1686 was in the possession of Lady Tyrrill.
Collaboration is restricted.
524 pages: 1% complete (2% transcribed)
Medici, Antonio De'
Segreti ... esperimentati di sua propria mano tutti verissimi dati, e donati a me Caterina Medici nel Convento delle Murate di Firenze, l'anno 1598. On the third leaf the MS. is described as 'Trattato copioso diviso in due parti, nella prima si insegna il modo da fare tutti i lisci senaza...
Collaboration is restricted.
694 pages: 3% complete (7% transcribed, 4% needs review)
Royal College of Physicians: A collection of medical receipts and prescriptions 17th century (MS 502)
Handwritten recipe book from the collections of the Royal College of Physicians Link to Royal College of Physicians catalogue
226 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)
45 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Medical recipe book (MSS 03340)
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Collaboration is restricted.
172 pages: 19% complete (34% transcribed, 15% needs review)
University of Guelph: Handbound Recipe and Remedy Book (XM1 MS A117045)
85 pages: 17% complete (100% transcribed, 82% needs review)
University of Guelph: Handbound Recipe and Remedy Book (XM1 MS A117046)
76 pages: 92% complete (100% transcribed, 8% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)
134 pages: 99% complete (100% transcribed, 1% needs review)