Detail View: Medieval Collection: Preface
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Image Number:
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JRL0905102dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 7
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Preface
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Parent Work Title:
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Forme of Cury
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Fourme of Curye
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Creator:
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Master Chef of King Richard II of England
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Display Creator:
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Master Chef of King Richard II of England
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Date Created:
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14th century [late]
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Page:
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4r
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Image Sequence Number:
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004r
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Description:
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Incipit: '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'. 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.
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Transcription:
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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.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Cookery
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Subject:
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Recipes
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1200 - 1500 CE
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Places Covered:
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England
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People Covered:
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Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400
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Item Height:
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142 mm
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Item Width:
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100 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Walsh, Johannes
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.8.
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References:
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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.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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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).
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Cost:
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Bought by Lord Crawford in 1872 for £31.00 through Bernard Quaritch.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2008-11-11
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Multi Page Number:
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45
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-01
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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