Detail View: Medieval Collection: Leche Lumbard

Image Number: 
JRL0905165dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 7
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Leche Lumbard
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
Display Creator: 
Master Chef of King Richard II of England
Date Created: 
14th century [late]
Page: 
35v
Image Sequence Number: 
035v
Description: 
The recipe on this page is the continuation for making 'Leche Lumbard'. The written space is 92 x 50 mm with 14 lines to the page. The hand is anglicana formata.
Transcription: 
& do it in a bladder & lat it seeþ til hit be ynowh. & whan it is ynowh kerue it. leche hyt i(n) liknes of a peskod. and take grete rayso(u)ns & grynde he(m) i(n) a mort(er). drawe he(m) vp w(i)t(h) rede wyne. do þ(er)to mylke of alma(u)nd(es). colo(ur) hit w(i)t(h) sa(u)ndr(es) & safro(u)n. & do þ(er)to poudo(ur) of pep(er) & of gylofr(e) & boyle hit. & whan hit is y boyled. tak poudo(ur) of canel & g(yn)g(er). & te(m)p(er) it vp wiþ wyne & do alle þes þynges to gyd(er) & loke þ(a)t it be re(n)nyng
Language Code: 
enm-GB
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: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance: 
Walsh, Johannes
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.8.
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.
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).
Notes: 
Closely related to the 'Forme of Cury' printed by Samuel Pegge in 1780.
Cost: 
Bought by Lord Crawford in 1872 for £31.00 through Bernard Quaritch.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2008-11-12
Multi Page Number: 
360
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-01
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB