ENRoyal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)
Author Name
Sedley, Lady (Catharine)
Document Date
1686-01-01
Source Location
MS534
Source Collection Name
Royal College of Physicians
Editorial Notes
Book of culinary and medical recipes. By Lady Catherine Sedley, wife of Sir Charles Sedley, 1639-1701 It consists of 75 pages containing 140 receipts, sixteen of which are culinary and (the rest medical, mostly herbal, for the use of major and minor ailments, a few of them are cosmetic. The first 58 pages are written in a good legible hand, the lines are carefully ruled and the headings are bold and ornamental. Subsequent entries, however, are in different and less educated handwriting, the ruled lines disappear, the headings are less ostentatious and the whole work shows signs of haste or carelessness in execution. There is also an article on the receipt book and other 17th century receipt books, by Leonard George Guthrie, 1913. May have actually been written by Ann Ayscough rather than Catherine, Lady Sedley (d.1705), wife of Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) or their daughter Catherine, Countess of Dorchester (1657-1717)Index References: Prescriptions Recipes See Dr. Leonard Guthrie. Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. 1913, VI (Sect. Hist. Med.) pp. 150-169
Original Filename
RCP
