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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Compast

Image Number: 
JRL220800100
Reference Number: 
English MS 7
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 18
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Compast
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: 
49v
Image Sequence Number: 
049v
Description: 
The recipe on this page is the continued recipe for making 'Compast'. The written space is 92 x 50 mm, with 14 lines to the page. The hand is anglicana formata.
Transcription: 
alle þes þing(es) vp & lat hit kele on a fayre cloth. do þ(er)to salt whan hit is cold in a vessel take vyneg(er) & powdo(ur) & safro(u)n & do þ(er)to & lete alle þes lye þ(er)inne al a nyght oþ(er) al day. tak wyne creke & hony claryfied to gyd(er). lumbard mustard & rayso(u)ns cora(u)nce al hole & grynde poudo(ur) of canelle poudo(ur) douce. aneys hole & fenel seed. tak alle þes þyng(es) & cast to gyder in
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: 
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
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: 
500
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