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Ancient cookery manuscript

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Whitney cookery collection

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Ancient cookery manuscript
Collection

Whitney cookery collection

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1400 - 1499 (Approximate)
Place: England
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 3318
Topics
Cooking -- England
England -- 15th century
Genres
Manuscripts
Recipes
Notes
Content: Binder's title
Bibliography: Paul Acker, "The Middle English Cooking Recipes in New York Public Library Whitney MS 1," Journal of the Early Book Society 14 (2011): 217-32
Ownership: Circular armorial bookplate of the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888). Bookseller's slip on flyleaf, with this book as n. 1017. Collection of Helen Hay Whitney (1875-1944); her bequest to NYPL in 1945
Content: Digital Scriptorium Acknowledgments: This description owes much to the kindness of Jeffery Berry
Date: Assigned Date: s. XV
Date: Dated by scribe: No
Content: Document: No
Language: Notes: Latin
Content: Text 1: ff. 1[r]-12[r]; Title: Frumenty. Cookery; Incipit: Tak clene whete and bre hit in a morter all well and sethe hit in water til hit breke; Explicit: and pouder of peper and salt and seth hit on the fuyre and boile hit al nytel and messe hit forthe.; Notes: Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler, eds., Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century Early English Text Society. Supplementary Series 8 (Oxford University Press, 1985) pp. 98-129.
Content: Text 2: ff. 12[r]-15v; Title: Cookery; Incipit: Cranes and hernes scholden ben enarmod with larder of bakenne and rosted and etin with ginger; Explicit: also fruit and bake hit welle and etc.; Notes: On f. 15v, notes in a later hand. Constance B. Hieatt, ed., A Gathering of Medieval English Recipes Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Age 5 (Brepols 2008) pp. 132-134 with reference to the section, "Diversa Servicia" in her EETS SS8 volume, pp. 45-79
Physical Description
Extent: 15 leaves, small quarto
Extent: Ff. 1[r]-15v ; 166 x 119 mm
Reddish cloth over pasteboard; black spine label with gold block capitals, ANCIENT COOKERY. MS . XV CENTURY
18-26 long lines
Parchment
Description
...compilation of recipes written in black ink on fifteen leaves of vellum with the names of the dishes rubricated. The recipes on the first few leaves are very similar to those found in the famous 'Forme of cury'...
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11996402
MSS Unit ID: 3318
Archives EAD ID: 1711244
Photo Order: 63149
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.01.DISC17
Digital Scriptorium 1.0 ID: NYPL Whitney MS 1
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 35466830-255e-013b-cb13-0242ac110003
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1400: Created (Approximate)
  • 2022: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Ancient cookery manuscript" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1400 - 1499. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/40b63700-a782-0139-ee9e-0242ac110002

Chicago/Turabian Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Ancient cookery manuscript" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/40b63700-a782-0139-ee9e-0242ac110002

APA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1400 - 1499). Ancient cookery manuscript Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/40b63700-a782-0139-ee9e-0242ac110002

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Ancient cookery manuscript