COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0905179dc
Reference Number:
English MS 7
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Sowpes Dorree
Alternative Image Title:
Rapey
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:
42v
Image Sequence Number:
042v
Description:
Red initial at the beginning of each recipe. The recipes on this page are for making 'Sowpes Dorree' and for 'Rapey'. The written space is 92 x 50 mm and the hand is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
and s(er)ue hit forth. (.lxxx.) Sowpes dorree. Take alma(u)nd(es) y brayed. drawe he(m) vp with wyne. boyle hit cast þ(er)vppo(u)n safro(u)n & salt. tak brede y tosted i(n) wyne. lay þ(er)of a leyne & a noþ(er) of þat sewe & do alle to gyd(er) florysch(e) hit w(i)t(h) sug(er). poudo(ur) g(yn)g(er). & s(er)ue it forth. (.lxxxj.) Rapey. Tak half fygus & half rayso(u)ns pyke he(m) & waische he(m) i(n) wat(er). scald he(m) i(n) wyne. bray he(m) i(n)
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:
Walsh, Johannes
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
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).
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:
430
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-01
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Sowpes Dorree
