Seeking Sources for a Recipe for Aqua Caelestis in the Catchmay Manuscript (1629), Part 1

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28 février 2025

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by Annabel Cords, St. Olaf College When I first came across this short recipe in the middle of the Frances Catchmay Manuscript, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. It seemed nearly impossible to read – not only was it written in secretary script and chock full of abbreviations and measurement symbols, the text wasn’t even in English. As I worked through the first line of the recipe, I realized that this strange recipe for “Aqua Selestie” was entirely in a kind of abbreviated Italian.[1] I had ...

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