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Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Cookery Collection1

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commonplace-books3
astronomy1
cooking1
english poetry1
home economics1
medicine1
natural history1
proverbs1
recipes1

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Bolt, Jane1
Cowgill, Mary1
Gutch, M P1

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Commonplace book containing culinary recipes and various household directions, in various hands, commenced by Jane Bolt in 1694 and completed by M.P. Gutch in 1841

Bolt, Jane

1694-1841

Text from f.33v to end inverted; signature of M.P. Gutch on f.1r; signatures of Jane Bolt on ff.1r and 2r; recipes dated 1840 on ff.1v and 2v and dated 1841 on ff.96r and v

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Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose
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Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose

c.1690-c.1700

Ff.1r-6v: 'Miscellanea', aphorisms and notes on Roman and other ancient history; f.6v: Latin poem on the silk-worm; ff.7r-11r: 'A true account of Mr Fullers discovery of the true mother of the pretend...

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A commonplace book of Mary Cowgill containing mainly notes on astronomical, medical and natural history topics

Cowgill, Mary

c.1801-1850

Contents include: (1) a plan of York Minster (f.33) and local topographical notes on Malham Cove, Whernside, Ingleborough, Pen-y-Ghent and Pendle Hill (ff.40v-41); (2) financial accounts dated 1838 on...

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