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A collection of cookery recipes with some medical prescriptions owned at one time by Catherine Nanney.

An imperfect volume containing medical, culinary, and household recipes, and miscellaneous literary items including extracts from [Edward] Bysshe: The Art of [English] Poetry [(London, 1702)], an incomplete transcript of [John] Dryden's poem 'Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musique', extracts from 'Sir Charles Grandison's Memoirs' [? Samuel Richardson: The History of Sir Charles Grandison . . . (1754)], extracts from [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of] Shaftesbury: Characteristicks [of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)], extracts from [William] Mason's poem ['Musaeus: A Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope'], etc.

A volume, 1601-1607, in the hand of John Prise, the Priory, Brecon, and the Priory, Hereford, grandson of Sir John Prise (1502?-1555), containing medical and other recipes including charms against witchcraft (ff. 16 verso, 18); monetary accounts, mostly agricultural and household disbursements, together with brief lists of rents received, 1603-1604, for lands in Defynnog and for the tithes of Battle and Llandeilo'r-fân, Breconshire (ff. 5, 6 verso-7); the medicinal properties of various kinds of meat (ff. 234-238 verso); and farming memoranda (ff. 3 verso, 5, 6 verso-7, 240, 241 verso-242, 243 recto-verso). Additions in later seventeenth-century hands include culinary recipes (ff. 223 verso-224 verso, 225 verso).