Research Catalog

Title

Receipts relating to physick and surgery : those marked with M.P. experienced by My Lady Duchess, ca. 1750.

Author

Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785.

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Additional Authors

Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785.

Description

1; 46 cm.

Summary

Ms. collection of nearly 1,000 medical and culinary recipes.

Subjects

• Tobacco > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800
• Formulas, recipes, etc > Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English > Early works to 1800
• Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800

Note

• Second section ([1], 89, [1], [5] p. at end) has special t.p., which reads: Receipts of all sorts of dietdrinks, syrops, elixirs, restoratives & broaths.
• Paged in a contemporary hand: [1], 126, [6], [1], 89, [1], [5] p. Pages 38-41 and 104-105 (1st section) and p. 51-52 and 57-58 (2nd section) wanting. Contains in addition a total of 49 blank pages.
• "The tobacco ointment": p. 91 (1st section); followed by: "The vertues: It cures tumours, impostumes, wounds, ulcers, gunshot, scabs, the stinging with nettles, hornets, venemous beasts, scalding tho' with burning oyl, with lightning ... its good for the head and the stomach ... It is also good for the piles and gout."
• Each section includes index.
• Binding: Contemporary red calf, gilt, over wooden boards.

Biography (note)

• Daughter and heiress of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford; celebrated by Prior as "My noble, lovely little Peggy"; wife of 2nd Duke of Portland, mother of 3rd Duke; accomplished "turner" in wood, jet, ivory, amber; passionate collector, acquired Portland Vase and a "museum" of art objects and zoological specimens.

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• Cataloged

Call Number

Arents 95-72

OCLC

NYPW95-A48

Author

Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785.

Title

Receipts relating to physick and surgery : those marked with M.P. experienced by My Lady Duchess, ca. 1750.

Biography

Daughter and heiress of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford; celebrated by Prior as "My noble, lovely little Peggy"; wife of 2nd Duke of Portland, mother of 3rd Duke; accomplished "turner" in wood, jet, ivory, amber; passionate collector, acquired Portland Vase and a "museum" of art objects and zoological specimens.

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Added Author

Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785. Receipts of all sorts of dietdrinks, syrops, elixirs, restoratives and broaths. ca. 1750.

Research Call Number

Arents 95-72