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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Upper cover

Image Number: 
JRL220800001
Reference Number: 
English MS 7
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 18
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Upper cover
Parent Work Title: 
Forme of Cury
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Fourme of Curye
Creator: 
Master Chef of King Richard II of England
Creator Role: 
Author
Date Created: 
14th century [late]
Page: 
Upper cover
Image Sequence Number: 
001a
Description: 
Limp style binding: full bound in alum tawed leather.
Transcription: 
Copia domini Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum Anglie. Thys fourme of cury ys compiled of þe chef mayster coke of kyng Richarde þe second after the conquest of England by assent of maysters of physyck and of phylosophye. Furst hyr behynneþ at commune po[t]ages & comune metes. And afterward of anyoes metes for hyghest astates. and þys table sewing telleth how þey stonden in ordre by number.
Subject: 
Bookbinding
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Support: 
Leather
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
Item Height: 
142 mm
Item Width: 
100 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Walsh, Johannes
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 401. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p. 8
Cost: 
Bought by Lord Crawford in 1872 for £31.00 through Bernard Quaritch.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2022-08-02
Multi Page Number: 
5
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2022-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval