A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same

Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is signed with a running number, 1-14, top left of the text frame. Contents: Of creame and butter; Of the temperamente of the waterye parte of milke called wheye; Of the curdes or cheesye partes of milke; Of the diversitie of milke in ye cheese in this contreye; Of the difference in makinge cheeses; Of the difference of cheeses by the age and tyme in which they are kepte; Of the goodnes of cheese; Of the election of cheese; Of the vertues of cheese used as a medicine. The paper bears a watermark of the arms of the University of Paris, signed S[imeon] Nivelle, similar to Briquet 1845, found by Briquet on papers in use between 1580 and 1595. Leaf size: 171 mm x 107 mm. Text frame: 129 mm x 91 mm.