IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MS.7997-8002
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Godfrey-Faussett Family: recipe books
Date(s): Mid 17th cent. - mid 18th cent.; 1816
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 volumes plus 1 file of loose papers
Name of creator(s): Faussett family
Godfrey family
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Recipe books of the Godfrey-Faussett family of Heppington, Nackington, Kent. MSS.7997-7999 bearing the book plate of the Revd. Bryan Faussett (1720-1776), the son of Bryan Faussett and his wife Mary Faussett née Godfrey. The volumes contain mainly culinary recipes, with a few medical recipes, and some veterinary recipes in MS.7998. There is great overlap in the contents of MSS.7997-7999, with recipes copied word for word, but it is difficult to ascribe a chronology to the volumes as few dates are given and the hands used date from roughly the same period. Five different hands appear: two unidentified hands in MS.7997; one unidentified hand and Mary Faussett in MS.7998; and Catherine Godfrey and Mary Faussett in MS.7999. Mary Faussett née Godfrey (1695-1761) received MS.7999 from Catherine Godfrey (fl.1699), possibly her mother, and MS.7998 presumably from another relative. Mary later copied identical recipes into the volumes (e.g. recipe for vinegar, MS.7998, p.121 and MS.7999, p.118), perhaps in order to pass the collection on to daughters or other family members.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, with some Latin
System of arrangement:
The volumes were numbered artificially and indexed at a later date. Recipes which are repeated in other volumes are annotated with the relevant volume and page reference. MSS.8000-8001 are more informal volumes of recipes, while MS.8002 is a collection of loose recipes.
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of copies:
MSS.7997-7999 are available for consultation on microfilm AMS/MF/211.
Publication note:
Published (in microfilm form) in Women in Medicine: Remedy Books, 1533 - 1865, ed. Sara Pennell (Woodbridge, Connecticut: Primary Source Microfilm, 2004).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008