Item genre: Index

British Library: MS Sloane 2486
Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650)
Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe)

Item 6 (Index), fols 62r-69v

The table

an ointment for any ache [number] 6

...

for the worms [number] 248

[The final 8 folios consist of two alphabetical indexes, the first (fols 62r-63r) dealing with the receipts on fols 2r-10r, and the second (fols 63r-69v) with Lettice Corbett's receipts on fols 10v-61v. A note at the top of 62r clarifies that "The part that concerns this table ends at page 17 and is called the first part of the book and contains 47 receipts and then begins anew as in the second table after this".]

[Margaret Baker has signed the manuscript at the end of the index (fol.69v), along with the date "1650 " ]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F29
Sarah Cowper's Diary, Volume 1 (1700-1702)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5 (Index), pp.[ii-iii]

Cowper's index to the diary

Antonia Bourignion 243

...

Zeal 299


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F30
Diary, Volume 2 (1703 - 1705)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 2 (Index), pp.[i-iii]

Cowper's index to the diary

A | Advice 248. 264

...

W:C: to the Tower 312

[

"W:C:" is her son, William Cowper.

The index appears to have been added sometime after the rest of the manuscript was completed, since it is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F31
Diary, Volume 3 (1705-1706)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 6 (Index), p.305-back pastedown

Cowper's index to the diary

A | Age. 7 20 136 221 244

...

X

[Followed by blank p.[308]and back pastedown.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F32
Diary, Volume 4 (1706-1709)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 3 (Index), front flyleaf v - p.[i]

Cowper's index to the diary

A | Apparitions 82.

...

Story 14.24.27.28.67.82.86.93.108.113.114.127.142.146.192.202.228.233.305.347.349.361.


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F33
Diary, Volume 5 (1709-1711)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 3 (Index), pp.[ii-iii]

Index to diary entries

Addresses 206.

...

Z.


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 2 (Index), pp.[i-iii]

Index to diary entries

A. | Aches. 149. 216. 240. 273. 281. 285.

...

Zeal. 40

I have misplaced some letters of the alphabet, fearing there would not be room in this paper to contain the index ---


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F41
History of the World (1686)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 7 (Index), back flyleaf r - back pastedown

Brief references to subjects on various pages in the volume

Wine see page 221 231

...

See Arius, Eusebius, Athanasius. page 344. 345. 353. 378

[

This is the entire entry. It is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.

Followed by blank flyleaf v and pastedown, both of which are marbled.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F42
Index Volume (After 1686)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 2 (Index), fols [1v-18r]

Indices to two of Cowper's manuscripts


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F43
Miscellany (1690, 1698 and later)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 4 (Index), fols [iii[r]-vi[v]]

Index to the volume

A. | Ark 485

...

Zeal 96. 401. 589.

[

The pages have been divided into two columns, and down the left side of each column "a e i o u" has been written twice vertically.

Preceded by blank fol.[iiv].

Followed by blank fol.[viv].

]