COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL220800018
Reference Number:
English MS 7
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Index to recipes
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:
8v
Image Sequence Number:
008v
Description:
Table of recipes in black and red ink. There are 194 numbered recipes, with numbers 184-6, part of 187 and no. 194 missing. The written space is 92 x 50 mm, with 14 lines to a page. The hand is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
For to make noumbles i(n) lent.....Cxij. for to make chaudo(u)n for lent.....Cxiij. Furmente w(i)t(h) porpays.....Cxiiij. fylett(es) in galyntyne.....Cxv. Veel in buknade.....Cxvj. sooles in cynee.....Cxvij. Tenches in cynee.....Cxviij. oysters in grauey.....Cxix. Muskels in bruet.....Cxx. oysters in cynee.....Cxxj. Caudel of muskels.....Cxxij. mortrews of fysche.....Cxxiij. Laumpreys i(n) galyntyne.....Cxxiiij. (l)aumpro(u)ns i(n) galyntyne.....Cxxv.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Language:
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Subject:
Cookery
Subject:
Recipes
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400
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:
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
Bibliographic Citation:
Hieatt, Constance B., and Butler, S., 'Curye on Inglysch, English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century (Including the Forme of Cury)' (London: Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1985).
Cost:
Bought by Lord Crawford in 1872 for £31.00 through Bernard Quaritch.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-08-02
Multi Page Number:
90
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
Index to recipes
