John Dauntesey recipe book
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/070
Scope and Contents
Volume contains recipes, manuscript copies of printed medical and chemical works, and genealogical
information, 16521683.
Volume contains recipes and prescriptions in English and Latin, in various
hands, on pages 110
and 111212.
There are several references to James Blackburn, who may have
owned or compiled the volume originally, then given it to John Dauntesey in 1652. Several prescriptions
are specifics against plague. Pages 11100
contain manuscript copy of works printed in London in 1652,
specifically, Paracelsus’ One hundred and fourteen experiments and cures of the famous physician
Theophrastus Paracelsus’; Bernard Georges Penot’s A treatise of certain particulars; and fragments of
Joannes Isaaci, Hollandus, on chemical experiments. Pages 213-214
contain biographical information on
John Dauntesey and record of births of his thirteen children, 1667-1683.
Dates
- 1652 - 1683
Creator
- Dauntesey, John (Person)
Biographical / Historical
John Dauntesey, son of William Dauntesey, was born in Eccles, Chester County, England on 11 Jan.
1629. He had thirteen children, born from 1667 to 1683.
Extent
1 volume
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Dauntesey, John (Person)
- Title
- John Dauntesey recipe book
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org