Recipes. Instructions (document genre)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.16
Scope and Contents
The arrangement of the notebook is as follows:musical theory (folios 1-19, 35-66);tenor and bass parts only to 13 common psalm tunes, all in the psalter of 1635 (folios 20-32);the proper tune for psalm 119, tune only (folio 33);melody and figured bass parts to 10 psalm tunes, possibly from a collection circa 1750 (folios 66 verso-71);miscellaneous recipes for colours, medicines, etc. (folios 76-115); and,a poem...
Dates:
Circa 1754.
Papers, including recipe, cash books, and notebooks of Charles Macnab.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8633
Scope and Contents
With eight cashbooks and diaries, 1889-1929.
Dates:
1880-1929.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents belonged to John Skene (died 1644), the second son of Lord Curriehill, and to his son John, 2nd of Hallyards (died before 1699).The subjects include estate matters (in particular, the teinds of Hallyards) and political matters such as the sequestration of goods in the second half of the 17th century, and the raising and quartering of troops. The elder Skene was a Clerk of Session, and a number of legal papers are included in the volume, one of which (folio...
Dates:
1563-1710.
Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.
File
Identifier: Acc.8862
Scope and Contents
With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Recipe book entitled Receipts MR.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13696
Scope and Contents
This recipe book is anonymous but the initials M.R. on the cover may be those of the compiler. One of the recipes is dated Drumpark 13 September 1882.
Dates:
1882, undated.
Recipe book kept for households in Aberdeenshire and London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11926
Dates:
circa 1881-1886.
Recipe books of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10708
Scope and Contents
Includes recipes of Stephana Malcolm and Lady Clementina Malcolm. With an incomplete account book, 1880, of Mary Malcolm Douglas.
Dates:
1782-1892 and undated.
Recipes, medical and other., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11G, folios 66-92
Scope and Contents
The recipes on folios 71 verso and 72 verso are attributed to Mr William of Bristowe. On folio 90 verso is one for dyeing silk. On folio 92 is a description of a choleric man.On folio 66 is the first stanza of `A Dietary` by John Lydgate (‘The Minor Poems of John Lydgate’, volume ii, page 702). On folio 89 verso is an extract, headed `De spermate hominis’, from the South English Legendary, St Michael (‘The Early South English Legendary’, pages 319-320, 11.702-11.729; ‘The South...
Dates:
15th century.
Scottish medical recipe book, 1688-1689, lecture notes on medicine, late 18th century, and copies of papers, 1821-1827, of Francis Hamilton.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6605/1-3
Dates:
1688-1827.
Seven works on medical subjects., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(iv), folios 32-151
Scope and Contents
`Practica’ by Bartolomaeus Salernitanus; printed in ‘Collectio Salernitana’, volume 4, page 321). Author and title are not given. (Folio 32.)`Practica` by Joannes Platearius. (Folio 68.) At the end are added a series of recipes (14th century, folios 111-112). There are notes, 15th century, in the lower margins of folios 72, 75 verso, 86, and 111 verso.`Exceptiones de disputatione phisicorum et arte medicorum`. (Folio 112 verso.)`Liber aureus` by Joannes...
Dates:
13th century.
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, and a list of symptoms., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.9(iii), folios 59-68
Scope and Contents
`Summa magistri Walteri de Agelon facta de dosis medicinarum`, incipit `Medicinarum uero quedam sunt simplices quedam composite` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 860) (folio 59).A list of symptoms, incipit `Significat solutionem se acute mediante fluxu sanguinis a naribus’ (folio 65 verso).Vacant spaces are filled in by different hands of the 14th and 15th centuries with recipes (folios 65, 68 verso, some of the latter in...
Dates:
14th century.
Translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), and the end of an unidentified work., 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1(i), folios 1-6
Scope and Contents
End of an unidentified work, explicit `De ueconia si quis ante prandium sumpserit non ebrius fiet`. (Folio 1.)`De gradibus simplicum` by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā’li), translated by Constantinus Africanus. The author is not named and the title is given as `liber gradum`, incipit `Absinthium calidum vel siccum in 1º gradu` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 11). (Folio 1.) Initials and headings are in red....
Dates:
13th century.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9
Scope and Contents
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Dates:
14th century.
Work schedules and recipes for the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh kitchens.
File
Identifier: Acc.9123
Dates:
1943.