Detail View: Medieval Collection: Chastletes

Image Number: 
JRL0905267dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 7
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Chastletes
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: 
86r
Image Sequence Number: 
086r
Description: 
The recipe on this page is for making 'Chastletes'. The manuscript wants a folio between 85v and 86r so the beginning of the recipe is missing. The written space is 92 x 50 mm and the hand is anglicana formata.
Transcription: 
Eu(er)y syde. kerue out keyntlyche kyrnels aboue i(n) þe man(er) of batelyng and dry hem hard in an ovene oþ(er) in þe sun(n)e. in þe myddel coffyn do a fars of pork wiþ gode powdo(ur) and ayro(u)n raw with salt & colo(ur) hit w(t) safro(u)n. and do jn a noþ(er) creme of alma(u)nd(es), & held in a noþ(er) creme of cowe mylke w(t) ayro(u)n. colo(ur) hyt w(t) sa(u)ndres. In a noþ(er) man(er)e: fars of fyg(es). of rayso(u)ns. of apples. of per(es). & holde hit browne. In a noþ(er) man(er)e do fars as to fryto(ur)s
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Recipes
Subject: 
Cookery
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: 
865
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-01
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB