Recipes. Instructions (document genre).
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Sets of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food. (AAT) This heading was used in the published catalogues for household and other recipes, including works on cookery. Medicinal recipes were indexed under the term 'Medicine'. (NLS).
Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:
'Famous Tippermallochs System of Physick’, being a manuscript, written in 1710, of the collection of medical recipes compiled by John Moncrieff of Tippermalloch.
Item
Identifier: MS.3772
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement of this manuscript corresponds fairly closely with that found in the printed editions, but the manuscript contains several recipes which do not appear in them, and vice versa; there are also differences in the details of recipes. The manuscript contains some additional material at the end.The contents are as follows. Tippermalloch's Recipes (pages 1-181); The following note by the writer of the manuscript: 'The End Of the Famous...
Dates:
1710.
Formal documents and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Taylor, rector of Musselburgh Grammar School.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14271-14272
Dates:
1800-1936, undated.
General financial, legal and miscellaneous papers of the Cunninghame Graham, family., 1826-1936.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11335/162-176
Dates:
1826-1936.
Household and medical recipes, lists of flowers and fruit-trees and other gardening notes, a list of fish in Loch Fyne, and conversion-tables for Scottish and English weights and measures., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17889
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1614-1905, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17850-17857
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1614-1905, undated.
Household recipes., 1824-1837.
File
Identifier: MS.3123
Scope and Contents
The dates 1824, 1826, and 1836-1837 occur at various places.
Dates:
1824-1837.
Household recipes of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17853
Scope and Contents
The recipes are arranged under the general heads of food (folio 1), preserves (folio 105), drink (folio 137), household (folio 193), vermin and animals (folio 227), and technology (folio 238).
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
File
Identifier: MS.9240
Scope and Contents
The text refers to figures which are not included. The manuscript also contains household and pharmaceutical recipes (folio 52), and a list of books and equipment of an army officer (folios 1 inverted).
Dates:
19th century.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
'Large Collection of choice recipes for Cookrie, pastries, milks, sauces, candying, confectionating, and preserving of fruits, flowers, etc', dated Dumfries, 1722.
Item
Identifier: MS.10281
Scope and Contents
There are later additions of medical and household recipes in the same hand on the end-papers of the volume up to 1764. The compiler of the recipes is unidentified.
Dates:
1722-1764.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Legal papers, recipes and letters of the Scawen and Meade familes., 1685-1779, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12933
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates:
1685-1779, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Scawen and Meade family papers.
Letter from J Farrell, printer and dyer, Manchester, to Andrew Mutie, printer and dyer, Milton, concerning printing cloth, 1845; and recipes for colour, 1844-1845. , 1844-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.17997
Manuscript of a 'materia medica' in Gaelic, with some specifics and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.3
Scope and Contents
A materia medica, with some specifics (prescriptions) and a calendar. Text, decoration and certain of the hands all bear comparison with John Rylands Library MS. Ir. 35, a manuscript of Scottish provenance for which see Ingliston MS. A.i.9, number 50, and ‘The Academy’, volume 49, page 405.The manuscript is written by the following hands:1. Text, folios i-33, 36-39. A very fine hand bearing similarities to that of Domhnall Albanach Ó Troighthigh, British...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript of 'The brut, or the chronicles of England', containing the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6128
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377, substantially as printed by Friedrich W D Brie.The missing first folio of the original text has been supplied in a later hand. A gap in the text from the middle of cap. lxxiii to the middle of cap. lxxvi is the result of losses between folios 29 and 30. Cap. ci is followed by a section entitled, 'How kyng Cadwaladre that was Cadwaleynes sone regnede aftir his fader and was laste kyng of the...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscripts from the Macadam collection of books on baking and confectionery in the Department of Printed Books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10978-10980
Dates:
1659-20th century.
Medical notes and recipes of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1614-1905, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17851
Scope and Contents
The undated papers are arranged thus: Latin (folio 130), French (folio 157), English (folio 178), and printed (folio 345). Among a series of opinions on the condition of Margaret Carnegie, wife of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, are several by John Locke.
Dates:
1614-1905, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Medical recipes., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10965
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Medical recipes, begun in London in 1709.
Item
Identifier: MS.3773
Scope and Contents
This manuscript has the bookplate, with the date 1708, of 'The Honble. Archibald Campbell Esqr.' - presumably the then Lord Ilay, later the 3rd Duke of Argyll. The book has the appearance of a personal compilation, though the handwriting is unlike that found in contemporary letters of the Duke.The recipes, which apply to many diseases, appear to have been derived both from professional sources and from those of traditional domestic medicine. In many cases the name of the person...
Dates:
1708-1713, 1725, 1732.
Medical recipes, being a volume of prescriptions and recipes with a few additions in a later hand.
File
Identifier: MS.15916
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio 1) and some accounts for drugs, possibly from Edinburgh (folio 241).
Dates:
1708.
Medical recipes of R[obert] Collins., Late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10964
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Medical recipes of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5112
Scope and Contents
The contents include a treatise, 1656, on the making of plasters (folio 1), a copy of Dr Hermann Boerhaave's prescriptions for powders for a fever (folio 68), and a photostat of a prescription, undated, by Jon Macolo, physician to James VI (folio 70).
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Medical recipes written by Sir Harry Bruce., Early 17th century-mid 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17852
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
Early 17th century-mid 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Memorandum-book of Elizabeth Walker, daughter of James Walker, Minister of Buittle; and a journal of Mr Bontein, Writer in Cardross., 1717-1762, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2205
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum-book of Elizabeth Walker, daughter of James Walker, Minister of Buittle, containing notes of money matters and deaths in the family, recipes, etc., 1717-1762, undated. The earlier notes are in the hand of another. Fragmentary; many leaves had been wholly or partly cut away before receipt, and several blank leaves have been removed since. (Folio 1.)(ii) Journal of Mr Bontein, writer in Cardross, 1728, relating entirely to...
Dates:
1717-1762, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.