Detail View: Medieval Collection: Rapey

Image Number: 
JRL0905180dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 7
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Rapey
Alternative Image Title: 
Sauce Sarzyne
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: 
43r
Image Sequence Number: 
043r
Description: 
Red initial at the beginning of each recipe. The recipes on this page are the continued recipe for making 'Rapey' and also for 'Sauce Sarzyne'. The written space is 92 x 50 mm and the hand is anglicana formata.
Transcription: 
a mort(er). drawe hem þorow a strayno(ur). cast he(m) i(n) a pot & þ(er)wiþ poudo(ur) of pep(er) & oþe(er) gode poudours. lay it vp w(i)t(h) flour(e) of rys & colo(ur) it w(i)t(h) sa(u)ndres. salt it. seeþ it & messe hit forth. (.lxxxij.) Sauce sarzyne. Tak hepp(es) & make he(m) clene. tak alma(u)nd(es) bla(u)nched. fry he(m) i(n) oyle & bray he(m) in a mort(er) w(i)t(h) hepp(es). drawe it vp w(i)t(h) gode rede wyne & do þ(er)inne sug(er) y nowgh w(i)t(h)
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: 
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).
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): 
2008-11-11
Multi Page Number: 
435
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-01
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB