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17 octobre 2022
- doi: 10.58079/tdd5
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Jess Clark, « 'I Have Known': Copying Personal Accounts in Early Modern Receipt Books », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdd5
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By Margaret Maurer Reading British Library Sloane MS 559, a seventeenth-century receipt book, I came upon a recipe with the following efficacy statement: "I have knowne a woman heale many blind people with this medicine following" (MS 559 6v). The sentence was striking, not only because it places powerful healing with Biblical resonance in the hands of an unnamed woman, but because I had already seen it in another early modern receipt book. The sentence appears word-for-word in British Lib...