Martha Carlin
Associate Professor
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of History
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
USA
Telephone:
(414) 229-5767
(direct line)
Messages:
(414) 229-4361
(History Department Office)
E-mail:
carlin@uwm.edu
Office:
Holton
328
Office hours:
Tuesdays 11 am to noon, and by appointment
Medieval social and
economic
history, with a focus on English urban history and archaeology, food
and
diet, and
household technologies
Fall
2007
History 203
(Early Middle Ages)
History
203: weekly lecture outlines
History
203: some primary sources for research papers
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DEPARTMENTS |
Courses taught in previous semesters:
History
101 (Western Civilization to 1500)
Western
Civilization to 1500: Online Readings
History 192 (Life in a Medieval Castle)
History 203 (Early Middle Ages) History
204 (High
Middle Ages)
History
204: weekly lecture outlines
History
204: some primary sources for research papers
History
600 (Food, Culture, and Power: The Role of Food in History)
Food,
Culture, and Power: some historic menus
History
950 (Seminar in European History: London to 1600)
Liberal
Studies 721 (Food, Culture, and Power: The Role of Food in History)
Food,
Culture, and Power: some historic menus
Documenting Your History Paper This is my own four-page class handout. (For writing problems to avoid, see also my one-page list of writing tips and example of how not to write a paper.) For more detailed documentation manuals, try one of the following.
Guidelines for Writing Papers My own short guide on how to write and document a paper.
Chicago Style An easy-to-use guide to citation by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writing Center, based on The Chicago Manual of Style and Turabian's Manual for Writers.
Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources
Documenting History Sources Using Chicago Style Diana Hacker's concise guide includes sample Notes, Bibliography entries, manuscript format, and a sample student paper documented in the Chicago style.
Turabian Style Guide Very brief tip sheet for some of the common citations used in bibliographies.
Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide
Chicago Manual of Style: Sample Notes and Bibliography
Documentation and Style Guide, by Gary Shimek and David Tietyen. Very comprehensive and detailed. Based on the Chicago Manual of Style, though in citations idiosyncratically places date following author's name (avoid), instead of preceding chapter or page number (use).
Citing
Electronic
Information in History Papers, by Maurice Crouse of the University
of Memphis. Based on Turabian's style manual. An excellent and very
thorough
guide.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's home page
Google search of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Website Use Google's search engine to search UWM's Website.
UWM History Department's home page
US and Foreign Universities Links to Web sites for more than 3000 colleges and universities.
History Departments Around the World
Teachers
of
History in the Universities of the United Kingdom
Searchable database, provided by the Institute of Historical Research.
Grants for Individuals: History
Useful collection of links to
granting bodies.
HUMBUL
Humanities Hub Very comprehensive collection of links to
online
resources in the humanities,
hosted by Oxford University.
The Labyrinth A comprehensive Web site for Medieval Studies. Based at Georgetown University.
The World Wide Virtual Library: History Numerous links to a wide variety of History and related Web sites worldwide.
The History Journals Guide Stefan Blaschke's directory of History journals worldwide, with links to online articles and reviews.
World History Compass Links to History sites on the Web the world over. Very useful.
Association for History and Computing See especially the "History Links." Based at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. In English.
Archaeology Data Service catalogue Massive index of online archaeological resources, including:
ARCHway Online catalogue of archaeological journals in 20 UK research libraries.
CBA Occasional Papers Full-text electronic versions of Council for British Archaeology Occasional Papers.
CBA
Research Reports Full-text electronic versions of out-of-print
Council
for British Archaeology research
and
excavation reports.
ArchNet: World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology A global virtual library for archaeology. Hosted by the Archaeological Research Institute at Arizona State University.
Archaeological
Resource
Guide for Europe A virtual library for European
archaeology.
In English and Dutch.
University
of Delaware Library: Medieval and Renaissance Sites and Sources
Dozens of links to online resources.
Ménestrel (médiévistes sur l'internet: sources travaux références en ligne) A portal for medieval links and online resources. In French.
Société de l'Oriflamme Gateway to web sites on European medieval warfare.
VL-Deutschland (Virtual Library for History in Germany) Links to German Web sites covering all areas of history. (Click on Mittelalter for medieval history.) Based at the University of Erlangen. In German.
Regesta Imperii Massive textual and bibliographical database for medieval studies, with a focus on German and papal history from the Carolingians to the reign of Maximilian I (751-1519). Click here to go directly to the bibliographical database. Based at the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, München and the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. In German.
Institut für
Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit
Links
to databases of images, small-finds, and other research materials that
focus on daily life in the medieval and early modern periods.
Based
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, or ÖAW). In German.
Ingenta (formerly CARL
UnCover)
Searchable database of tables of contents of thousands of
multidisciplinary
journals, 1988-present. Searching the database is free, as
is subscribing to a Table of Contents service for selected
periodicals.
Individual articles can be ordered by credit card for electronic or fax
delivery.
Find Articles Free, word-searchable database of articles (1998-present) on a wide variety of subjects from hundreds of popular, professional, and scholarly journals, including English Historical Review, Historian, and History Today.
Library of Congress
Home page of the Library of Congress.
National
Library Catalogues Worldwide Very useful collection of links,
by the University of Queensland.
MELVYL Consolidated online catalogue of the University of California libraries. Superb.
COPAC Consolidated online catalogues of major British and Irish university research libraries. Based at the University of Manchester.
Die Digitale Bibliothek
Online catalogues of German research libraries and databanks, with
links
to some major online library catalogues worldwide. Instructions
primarily
in German. Click on "Alle Standorte" for widest possible search.
Peraldus
Alain Nadeau's collection of bibliographical references to more than
37,000 medieval manuscripts in some 1,580 libraries worldwide.
British Library: Manuscripts' Catalogue Searchable online catalogue of BL manuscripts. To search for online images from the library's holdings, click here on British Library Images Online .
British Library: New catalogue of Cotton MSS Compiled by Dr Nigel Ramsay in 1990-97 to supplement and update the original Cotton MSS catalogue published by Joseph Planta in 1801. Includes a partial bibliography of publications of manuscripts in the collection.
Bodleian Library, Oxford: Western Manuscripts to c. 1500 Describes the Bodleian's collections of pre-1500 Western manuscripts. For a few collections (e.g., MSS Lat.), there is an online handlist of manuscripts; for most collections, there are merely references to printed catalogues and a brief history of the collection.Internetquellen zu Handschriften, Inkunabeln, Nachlässen, Alten Drucken Alessandra Sorbello Staub's valuable collection of links to Internet sources on medieval manuscripts and early printed books.
Bodleian Library, Oxford: Images from Manuscripts Browsable selection of images, 11th-17th cent., arranged by century and country of origin.
Oxford University: Images of Complete Manuscripts A selection of medieval and early modern manuscripts, scanned from the collections of the Bodleian Library and of six college libraries.
NEWTON:
Online catalogues of Cambridge University libraries Includes
separate catalogues for CUL and individual college libraries.
Medieval
and Modern Thought Digitization Project This project,
based at Stanford University, is digitizing a wide range of printed
sources, including some of the catalogues of manuscripts in Oxford and
Cambridge college libraries.
Vatican Library Home page of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Includes an online catalogue (in Italian and English) of both manuscripts and printed books.
LibDex Alphabetical index to libraries around the world.
North American libraries containing pre-1600 manuscripts Lists of institutions in Canada, the US, and Puerto Rico that own pre-1600 manuscripts.
Medieval manuscripts in North America: changes in ownership Collections that have changed hands since the publication of de Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada and the Supplement by Faye and Bond. Posted by the Uncatalogued Manuscript Control Center (formerly known as the Union Manuscript Computer Catalogue).
C. W. Dutschke, Guide To Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library Online version of the Huntington's printed catalague, which describes 390 medieval and renaissance manuscripts in Latin script. In general, documents, fragments, and books in non-Latin script are excluded. For documentary material, see the printed Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1982).
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection: Online catalogue The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection is a private library focusing on late medieval and early modern manuscripts.
Handschriftencensus Detailed handlist of medieval manuscripts in the German language, including information about modern editions. Arranged in alphabetical lists of authors/titles and repositories. In progress.
Druckgraphische Buchillustrationen des 15. Jh. Illustrations from 76 German incunabula, searchable by volume (results in German only) and by topical alphabetical index (in both German and English).
Resource Guide for Medieval Studies Excellent bibliographic guide to print and online resources, from Saint Louis University.
Reportorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962- (in progress). Intended to replace Potthast's Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi; includes many printed sources either not mentioned by Potthast or which have only appeared since. Covers a wider scope of literature than Potthast (who focused on strictly historical sources) by including works of theology, philosophy, law, economics, art and literature.
Repertorium Chronicarum: A Bibliography of the Manuscripts of Medieval Latin Chronicles This project, directed by Dan Embree, attempts to record the location of every known manuscript of every known Latin chronicle of the Middle Ages. Searchable by author, title, city, and library. In progress.Royal Historical Society, consolidated Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish History More than 300,00 entries.
The Urban Past: An International Urban History Bibliography Organized by period and country, from the ancient world to the present. From the University of Guelph.
A Basic Bibliography in Medieval History From Columbia University Library.
History theses in the UK Searchable database of completed and in-progress doctoral theses and M.A. dissertations at universities in the UK, provided by the Institute of Historical Research.
Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection (established 1965); access for free the full-text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002.
History dissertations in progress, US and Canada Searchable database of doctoral dissertations in progress at American and Canadian universities.
Finding Dissertations and Theses in History A brief guide.
British record societies' publications since 1982 Manuscript sources published by British record societies since the appearance of E. L. C. Mullins, Texts and Calendars II: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications 1957-1982 (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks no. 12, 1983). Click here for the introduction .
Bibliography of Roman, medieval and early modern wills and probate inventories Word-searchable bibliography of printed wills and inventories and testamentary studies, alphabetized by title, rather than author. Covers Western Europe.
Stuart Jenks's Magazine Stacks Searchable collection of tables of contents of dozens of German and English medieval history journals, covering thousands of volumes. An outstanding resource.
ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals Searchable, browsable collection of 18th- and 19-century English journals, including The Gentleman's Magazine and Notes and Queries.
The National Archives, London On 2 April 2003 the Public Record Office, the Historic Manuscripts Commission, and the National Register of Archives merged to form a new organization: The National Archives. Click here for an alphabetical index of the former PRO's Information Leaflets .
Repositories of Primary Sources and Additional Lists of the same. Thousands of repositories of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other collections of primary sources around the world.
English
Monastic Archives Research project seeking to
reconstruct
the archives of every medieval English monastery, and to elucidate the
origins of record-keeping in England. Based at University College
London, and directed by Professor David d'Avray. In progress.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) Online version of the newly-revised and updated DNB, containing some 50,000 British biographies from earliest times to the year 2000. Searching can by done by subscribers only, but there are free trial subscriptions available for institutions.
Dictionary
of National Biography: Index and Epitome By Sidney Lee
(1903).
An index and summary version of the 63 original volumes and 3
supplement
volumes of the first edition of the DNB.
Directory of Royal Genealogical Data A massive database of everyone linked by blood or marriage to the British royal family, from earliest times to the present. Contains more than 30,000 entries, in effect covering most of the royal houses of Europe. Although individual entries are not documented, the site includes a lengthy bibliography of sources consulted.
The Peerage Valuable, fully-documented database of the peerage of Britain and the royal families of Europe.
Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage Compiled by Chris Phillips since the publication by Peter Hammond in 1998 of a volume of addenda and corrigenda to the Complete Peerage.
Généalogies Royales et Princières Genealogical database of the French royal family and of the princely and ducal families that descended from St. Louis, and of various modern royal and princely families. In French.
Database of the Higher Nobility in Europe Instructions provided in various languages, including English.
Knights of the Garter (1348-present) A chronological list. See also Knights of the Garter (1348-1488).
Testamenta Vetusta (index of testators) Index of the 807 English wills, dating from the 12th century to the 16th century, that were edited by Nicholas Harris Nicolas in 1826.
Medieval
& Tudor Kent P.C.C. & C.C.C. Wills These wills were
transcribed
by Leland Lewis Duncan (1862-1923).
F.
J. Furnivall, ed., Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of
Probate,
London (English, 1387-1454) Collection of London wills in
English, 1387-1439, with a priest's will of 1454, proved in the
Prerogative
Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Originally published in
Early
English Text Society, Original Series, vol. 78, 1882 (rpt 1964).
Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 Searchable biographical index, drawn from J. A. Venn's massive Alumni Cantabrigienses (1921).
Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikon 14,000-entry biographical dictionary in the fields of theology, history, literature, philosophy, pedagogy, music, and painting. Signed articles include useful literature surveys. In German.
A Medieval English Calendar Calendar calculator by historical years (1001-1600) and by English regnal years (William I-Elizabeth I, 1066-1603). Includes the date of Easter for each year, and also Roman dates for each day of each month (Kalends, Nones and Ides).
The Medieval Year A description of the yearly cycle of religious events, what they meant, and how they were celebrated in the 15th century.The Middle English Dictionary (2001) Online version of the recently-completed MED.
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English, from A.D. 1150 to 1580 Scanned version of the dictionary published by A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. Skeat in 1888.
OneLook Dictionary Search Simultaneously searches almost six million words in 963 dictionaries, including a number of foreign languages (but not Latin). Includes a "reverse dictionary" that allows the searcher to describe a concept, and then offers a list of words or phrases related to that concept. In English.
Ian Lancashire (ed.), Early Modern English Dictionaries Database Searchable database of 16th- and 17th-century English and bilingual dictionaries, including John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse(1524-30) and Randle Cotgrave's A dictionarie of the French and English tongues (1611).
Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879) A searchable version of the famous Classical Latin dictionary. Click here for an English-to-Latin version.
Dictionnaire Latin-Français More than 46,000 entries. In Latin and French.
Medieval
Latin
Dictionary from Danish Sources Searchable
wordlist,
from a Web site called Saxo Grammaticus. The actual title reads:
Vademecum
in opus Saxonis et alia opera Danica compendium ex indice verborum.
In Latin.
Anglo-Norman Dictionary A
revised and expanded version of the printed edition published by the
Anglo-Norman Text Society (1977-92). Made available through the
Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub, which also provides access to Anglo-Norman
source texts
and related articles.
Lexique d'ancien français Online dictionary, compiled by Douglas C. Walker
REFLEX (Research in Early French Lexicography) Online collection of dictionaries compiled in France before 1500.
Dictionnaires d'autrefois Online editions of French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Jean Nicot, Thresor de la langue francoyse, tant ancienne que moderne (French, 1606) An early French dictionary, searchable by headword.
Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbücher Online Searchable online composite version of three dictionaries of Middle High German, together with an extra finding aid that includes vocabulary from religious and other texts not consulted by the dictionary editors. In German.
Calculation
and Conversion Tools The Internet Public Library's
collection
of links to online calculators and conversion tools for such things as
weights, measures, Roman numerals, and currencies.
Russ
Rowlett, A Dictionary of Units of Measurement Extemely
useful.
Prof. Rowlett is the Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science
Education at the University of North Carolia, Chapel Hill.
Weights
& Measures, Ancient and Modern, of Europe and Asia
Streetmap
Find
any place in mainland Britain. Searchable by street, place name,
post code, telephone code, Ordnance Survey coordinates,
latitute/longitude,
telephone code, etc.
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 Compiled by Samantha Letters.
Size of English counties (in acres and square miles) By Stuart Jenks.
Graesse's Orbis Latinus An online version of the dictionary of Latin place-names by J. G. Th. Graesse (1909).
Latin Place-Names A brief but useful list of modern equivalents of Latin place-names in early printed books. Searchable both in Latin-to-English and in English-to-Latin.
Historical Atlas of Europe, AD 1-2000 Christos Nüssli's site provides maps of Europe century-by-century.
Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (1918) Online version of this scarce and very useful topographical dictionary of the City of London.
Sources for Building History A guide to researching historic buildings in the British Isles.
Research Institute for the Humanities An extremely comprehensive site, based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Includes useful links to many online dictionaries. In English.
IHR's
History On-line reference sites The Institute of Historical
Research's
collection of online dictionaries, directories, maps, encyclopedias,
train
timetables, and other reference works, plus gateways to museums,
libraries,
and archives.
Latin Vulgate Bible (Biblia Sacra Vulgata)
Searchable text of the Vulgate Bible
(Douay-Rheims version of 1589-1609, revised 1749-52), from an edition
published in Baltimore in 1899.
Timeline of
British History, 1066-1487 Includes brief biographies of
English
kings.
Monumental
Brass Society, Picture Library Online library of medieval
brasses,
including engravings of brasses that no longer survive.
Searchable
by name and by topic.
Primary Sources Online Outstanding collection of hyperlinks to online primary sources worldwide, provided by the Faculty of History University of Cambridge.
TEAMS Middle English Texts A large collection of important texts, both literary and historical, with excellent introductions, glosses, and scholarly apparatus.
The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Word-searchable collection of literary and historical sources, including Layamon's Brut, the Paston Letters (ed. Norman Davis, Part I), and an anthology of Chancery English, 1384-1462.
Corpus
of
Middle English Prose and Verse Large collection of
Middle
English texts, including wills, cookbooks, Chancery documents,
gild
regulations, surgical and conduct texts, and Paston letters, as well as
literary texts. Based at the University of Michigan.
Medieval
and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project This project,
based at Stanford University, is digitizing a wide range of printed
sources, including a number of volumes from the Rolls Series.
Epistolae:
Medieval Women's Latin Letters, 4th-13th cent. Latin letters
with
modern English translations and scholarly apparatus.
Renascence Editions An online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799 .
Gallica A vast online library of the cultural patrimony of France, drawn from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and of several major French museums, and comprising tens of thousands of historic texts, scholarly articles, images, sound archives, and other material. Texts of interest to English medievalists include chronicles and other sources edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy, Thomas Wright, and Henry Thomas Riley; Rymer's Foedera; etc. Click on "Recherche" to search the index. (Note that an asterisk can be used as a "wild card" to truncate search-terms.)
Literature of the French Middle Ages Numerous links to collections of texts and to related sites.
Online
Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) Word-searchable
collection
of full-text works of classical and medieval literature. All
except
the Middle English texts are in modern English translations.
EEBO: Early English Books Online Online index and full-text access to more than 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640, Wing's continuation of Pollard and Redgrave (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Dana F. Sutton, Library of Humanistic Texts, and Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts Alphabetical hyperlinks to thousands of online texts and facsimiles. The focus is on "Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later," but these include numerous medieval texts as well. In progress.
Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe Links to numerous texts, some in their original language, some in modern translation, some in both. Searchable by period and country. Very useful.
WWW Medieval Resources Medieval texts in their original languages.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook Thousands of medieval texts (most excerpted, some complete), mostly in modern English translation. An outstanding resource, edited by Paul Halsall.
Medieval
Source Material on the Internet Excellent collection of
links,
from an English genealogy site.
Henry
III Fine Rolls Project This project, in cooperation with The
National Archives, is producing a calendar of the Fine Rolls from 1216
to 1248, together with facsimiles of the original rolls. It
hopes eventually to extend the coverage to 1272. In progress.
Index to the English
Year Books, 1268-1535 Searchable index to the printed
Year Books, the law reports of medieval England, by David J.
Seipp.
In progress.
The
Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT): English Court Records, 1272 -
1649 Records of the courts of Common Pleas, Exchequer, and
King's Bench, for select years. Outstanding resource, provided by
Robert C. Palmer by agreement with The National Archives. In
progress.
Taxatio Database of England and
Wales, 1291-2 Database of the very detailed ecclesiastical
tax assessment of England and Wales, carried out in 1291-2 by order of
Pope Nicholas IV. In progress.
Magna
Carta (Latin, 1215) An English translation by Xavier
Hildegarde,
with an online glossary.
Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), Etymologiae, Book XX: De penu et instrumentis domesticis et rusticis (Latin, early 7th cent.) From the edition of Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum libri XX, ed. W. M. Lindsay (Oxford 1911). This final section of Isidore's etymological encyclopedia discusses tableware and kitchenware, other household furnishings, vehicles, farm and garden tools, and horse equipment.
Charlemagne, Capitulary De villis (Latin, early 9th cent.) In a modern English translation by James Harvey Robinson (1904).
Asnapium: An Inventory of One of Charlemagne's Estates (Latin, c. 811) In a modern English translation by Frederic Austin Ogg (1907).
Walahfrid
Strabo, Hortulus (Latin, c. 842-848) A Carolingian
monk's
description of his garden. This website provides the original
Latin
text with a clickable modern German translation; the text can be
searched
for references to individual plants or can be read straight through.
Monasteriales indicia: Monastic
sign-language (English, mid 11th cent.) 127 signs (including
signs for food items and tableware), used by Benedictine monks at times
of the day when speech was forbidden. Original Old English text, from
British
Library MS Cotton Tiberius A. III,
plus modern English translation by Nancy P. Stork.
Dental hygiene recipes from a variety of sources (11th-17th cent.) Eleven recipes for mouthwashes, teeth-whiteners, breath-fresheners, and toothpastes, in modern English translation.
Burgundio Pisano (trans.), Liber de vindemiis (Latin, 2nd half of 12th cent.) Latin translation of a Greek treatise on harvesting grapes, winemaking, and the care and emendation of wine, by a Pisan who spent several years in Constantinople. Edited by Francesco Buonamici in Annali delle Università Toscane, 28 (1908).
Guillaume de la Villeneuve, Les crieries de Paris (French, 13th cent.) Poem recording the cries of the street-sellers of Paris, many offering raw and cooked foods (Ms. Paris, B.N. fr. 837, ff. 246-7). Original text, from the edition of E. Barbazan et D.Méon (1808), with a modern French translation by Madeleine Jeay. Click here for an online dictionary to this text and to other French poems of the 12th-16th centuries. (If the Hyperlistes site is unavailable, click here for another copy of the poem .)
Henri d'Andeli, La bataille des vins (French, early 13th cent.) Poem describing the respective merits of various wines (Ms. Paris, B.N. fr. 837, ff. 231-232v; and Ms. Berne, Bibliothèque municipale, 113, f. 200v) From the edition by H. Héron (1881).
L'ornement des dames/Ornatus mulierum (Anglo-Norman, 13th cent.) Extracts, in modern English translation, from a collection of beauty recipes (Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1470, ff. 276r-279v) edited by Pierre Ruelle (1967).
Bishop Robert Grosseteste's Rules (Anglo-Norman and Latin, c. 1240) English translation by Elizabeth Lamond (in Walter of Henley's Husbandry, 1890), of the household rule written by Bishop Grosseteste for the widowed Countess of Lincoln.
La bataille de Caresme et de Charnage (French, 13th cent.) Poem describing a 'battle' between Lent and Carnival (Paris, BnF Ms. Fr. 837, ff. 21-24). From the edition by Grégoire Lozinski (1933).
D'un
mercier (French, 13th cent.) Anonymous poem describing a
mercer's wares (Ms. Paris, BnF fr. 19152, f. 42v-43). Original
text
from the edition of Philippe Ménard (1970), with a modern French
translation by Madeleine Jeay.
Walter de Bibbesworth, Le Tretiz (Anglo-Norman, c. 1250-1300) A verse treatise on country life and household duties, designed to instruct English children ("beaus duz enfauns," line 183) in French vocabulary. Edited by William Rothwell (1990), from Cambridge University Library MS Gg. 1. 1.
Bonvesin de la Riva of Milan (c. 1240 - c. 1315), De quinquaginta curialitatibus ad mensam (Italian [Milanese], later 13th cent.) Click on "Les bonnes manières de table" for this extract from De la Riva's verse guide to table manners, in a modern French translation ("Les 50 contenances de table"). Click here and scroll down for the original text .
Roman de la rose: Duenna's advice on table manners for young women (French, late 13th cent.) From Jean "Clopinel" de Meun's continuation of the poem by Guillaume de Lorris, in English translation by F. S. Ellis, The Romance of the Rose (1900).De l'Oustillement au villain (French, 13th cent.) This anonymous poem (from Ms. Paris, B.N. fr. 837, fol. 119v) includes a description of the furnishings and utensils to be found in a peasant's house.
Walter of Henley (Anglo-Norman, late 13th cent.) English translation, from Elizabeth Lamond's edition (1890).
Seneschaucie (Anglo-Norman, late 13th cent.) English translation, from Elizabeth Lamond's edition (1890).
Husbandry (Anglo-Norman, late 13th cent.) English translation, from Elizabeth Lamond's edition (1890).
Antonio Pucci [c. 1310-1388], Proprietà di Mercato Vecchio (Italian, 14th cent.) Pucci's poem describes the offerings of the Old Market of Florence.
Geoffroi des Nés, La Desputoison du vin et de l'iaue (French, ?14th cent.) Poem on the relative merits of wine and water (Ms. Paris, BnF fr. 24432, ff. 26v-29), from the edition of Achille Jubinal (1839).
Account roll (compotus) of the manor of Presteigne (Latin, 1384-5) Includes a photograph and Latin transcription of the beginning of the roll, with a modern English translation.
Eustache Deschamps, Ballade 350 (French, late 14th cent.) Poem lamenting the unpleasant fare of Lent. Edited by Queux de Saint-Hilaire (1878), vol. 3, pp. 75-76, from MS. Paris, B.N. fr. 840, f.116. (If the above link does not work, click here for another copy of the text.)
Eustache
Deschamps, Pour les nouveaulx mariez et de leur mesnage
(Ballade
1451, French, late 14th cent. )
Poem describing newlyweds' household goods and furnishings, ed.
Gaston Raynaud (1891-1901), vol. VIII, pp. 137-38.
The
Ménagier of Paris: The art of gardening (French, c.
1393)
English translation from Eileen Power's edition (The Goodman of
Paris,
1928),
pp. 195-204.
Treasure
roll of Richard II (French, 1398-9) Website describing a
detailed inventory of the English king's jewels and plate, made at the
very end of his reign.
Expenses of Aragonese ambassadors in England (Latin, 1415). Food, lodging and travel accounts, in English translation, from Analogues of Chaucer's Pilgrimage, ed. R. E. G. Kirk and F. J. Furnivall (1908), pp. 5-7.
A Generall rule to teche euery man that is willynge for to lerne . . . to serve a lorde or mayster (English, 15th cent.) How to serve meals in a great household, from British Library, MS Add. 37969, ff. 2-8, edited by R. W. Chambers (1914).
William Wey, What to bring on a sea-voyage to Jerusalem (English, 15th cent.) From The Itineraries of William Wey (1857).
Will
of Joan Buckland, of Edgcott, Northamptonshire (English and Latin, 1450)
This is Document 1 in an online collection of 63 wills from the diocese
of Lincoln, 1450-1544. Buckland's will includes a detailed list
of her household effects. From Andrew
Clark, ed., Lincoln Diocese Documents, 1450-1544 (1914).
Urbanitatis (English, c.1460) Conduct manual for boys in verse, from the edition of Frederick J. Furnivall in The Babees Book (1868), pp. 13-15.
John Russell, Book of Nurture (English, c. 1460) Extract, in modern English translation, concerning the duties of the panter, butler, and carver in a noble household. From The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: Done into Modern English From Dr. Furnivall's Texts, by Edith Rickert.
Olivier de la Marche, "Le service du vin," from L'état de la maison du duc Charles de Bourgogne dit le Hardy (French, c. 1467-77.) Click on "Le service du vin selon Olivier de la Marche" for a modern French translation by Bruno Laurioux of this extract from De la Marche's Mémoires.
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York (English, March 1502 - March 1503); and Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV (English, April - September 1480) Edited by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1830).
The Little Children's Little Book (English, c. 1480) Guide to manners for boys, from The Babees Book, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall (1868), pp. 16-24.
Un dittié des choses qui faillent en menage et en mariage (French, ?15th cent.) Poem on the things that one needs in a household (Ms. Paris, BnF fr. 12483, ff. 217-218). Original text from the edition of Achille Jubinal (1842), with a modern French translation by Madeleine Jeay.
Watelet de tous mestiers (French, ?15th cent.) Poem on the various trades and crafts (Versailles, Bibliothèque municipale 4 Mi 162). Original text from the edition of Anatole de Montaiglon et James de Rothschild (1878), with a modern French translation by Madeleine Jeay.
The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young (English, 15th-16th cent.) The greater part of Furnivall's Babees Book and Queene Elizabethes Achademy, in a modern English translation by Edith Rickert and L. J. Naylor (1908).
"Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband" (English, 15th cent.) A farmer exchanges chores with his wife.
Les honneurs de la table (French, 1491) Photograph of a manuscript of the second of three known French verse guides to table manners, inserted into the end of a book of hours written in 1491. Paris, Département de manuscrits, Rothschild VI. 3. 6.
The Treatyse of Fishing with an Angle (English, 1496) The former attribution of this treatise to Dame Juliana Berners, c. 1456, is no longer tenable, since a fragment of the text survives in a manuscript of the mid 14th century. The modern English translation offered here includes illustrations of fishing rods and other fishing implements from Wynkyn de Worde's printed edition of 1496. Click here for a transcript of the edition of 1561 ; and here for another modern English translation.
Les Cris de Paris (French, c. 1500) Photographs of four of the collection of 18 colored woodcuts illustrating the cries of the street-sellers of Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, RES EST-264).
The Boke of Kervynge (English, 1508) Treatise, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, on carving and serving food, with recipes for hippocras and sauces, seasonal menus, and the duties of various servants.
Hans Brask, Calendarium Oeconomicum (Swedish, early 16th cent.) Brask (1464-1538) became bishop of Linköping in 1513. The excerpts given here from his household manual list seasonal menus for his household and seasonal duties of his servants, month by month; another excerpt lists servants' rations. Edited by Martin Skjoldebrand, with English translations, from an edition of the original manuscript published in Linköpings bibliotheks handlingar, I (1793). See also Hans Hildebrand, ed., "Matordningen i biskop Hans Brasks hus," Konglike Vitterhets Historie och Antiqvitets Akademiens Måanadsblad, 157 (1885), pp. 1-21, and 159 (1885), pp. 141-2.
Inventory of John Asserby (English, 1527) From Andrew Clark, ed., Lincoln Diocese Documents, 1450-1544 (1914).
Master
[John]
Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry (English, first edition, 1523)
A housewife's duties. (For a similar
extract from
Fitzherbert, click
here.)
The manner of serving a knight, esquire, or gentleman at table and when your master intendeth to bedward (English, mid 16th cent.) From Hugh Rhodes' Boke of Nurture (5th edn, 1577), printed by F. J. Furnivall (1868).
Thomas Tusser, A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie (English, 1557) Guide for farmers and their wives, listing each month's labors.
New Year's gifts received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1561-1600 (English) Extracts from contemporary accounts, taken from John Nichols, ed., The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth (3 vols., 1823).
A London household's dinner conversation, from The French Schoolmaster (French and English, 1573) Excerpt from a French-English conversation manual, by Claudius Hollyband.
Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Husbandrie (English, 1570s) Guide for farmers and their wives, listing each month's labors, expanded from Tusser's earlier guide, A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie (1557; see above). This text is taken from an edition printed in 1744 (currently only the texts for September-April are reproduced).
Manual de mujeres en el cual se contienen muchas y diversas recetas muy buenas (Spanish, 16th cent.) Contains culinary, medicinal, and household recipes. Click here for an English translation of a selection of the recipes. Click here for and English translation of 3 recipes for face and hand soap .
Sir Thomas Cockaine, A Short Treatise of Hunting (English, 1591) How to hunt the fox, hare, roe, stag, buck, otter, and marten, with a brief description of signals to be sounded on the hunting horn.
Paul Hentzner, Description of Elizabeth I and her court at Greenwich in 1598 (Latin, 1612) This extract, translated into English, describes the queen, her reception of visitors, and how her meals were served. It is taken from Horace Walpole, ed., and Richard Bentley, trans., Paul Hentzner's Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1797), pp. 33-37. Click here for the complete text of Hentzner's Travels in England, together with Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia (1797, rpt 1892).
"F.B.," Rules . . . For Children to Write By (English, 1611) Extract from a manual of penmanship, including recipes for making ink.
Ben
Jonson, To Penshurst (English, c. 1616) Poem
praising
the model household of the Sidneys at Penshurst Place, Kent.
John
Taylor, The Praise of Hemp-Seed
(English, 1630) Poem examining the many uses of hemp-seed and
the trades and industries that depended on its products, including
those of the mercers, grocers, vintners, drapers, haberdashers,
tailors, skinners, dyers, apothecaries, comfit-makers, sailors,
shoemakers, saddlers, and paper-makers.
Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler (English, 1653 (Part I) and 1676 (Part II)
Thomas Barker, Barker's Delight: or, The Art of Angling (English, 1659) This is the second edition of Barker's work; according to the title page it is "much enlarged." The full title reads: BARKER'S DELIGHT: OR, THE ART OF A N G L I N G. Wherein are discovered many rare Secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that Recreation, both for catching the Fish, and dressing thereof.
Colonel Robert Venables, The Experienced Angler (English, 1662) The full title reads: The Experienced Angler: or Angling Improved. Being A general Discourse of Angling; Imparting many of the aptest wayes and choicest Experiments for the taking of most sorts of Fish in Pond or River.
Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewoman's Companion: or, A Guide to the Female Sex (English, 1675) Begins with chapters on the education and deportment of women, and follows with culinary recipes, medicinal recipes, advice to servants, model letters, and witty dialogues.
Mary
Evelyn, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd (English, 1690)
Delightful satire in verse of a guide to manners and fashion, including
a glossary of terms concerning dress, by John Evelyn's daughter. The
full
title reads: The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, and Her Toilette
Spread,
Together, with a Fop-Dictionary, and a Rare and Incomparable Receipt to
Make Pig, or Puppidog-Water for the Face.
Online Culinary History Network An online research library and network of historical culinary texts, dating from earliest times to the year 1700. Includes a chronological list of surviving texts. In progress.
Livres de cuisine en Europe médiévale A very useful survey of medieval European culinary texts. Click here for surveys of the texts arranged chronologically or by country or language . Part of a French food site called Maître Chiquart.
Cindy
Renfrow,
Glossary of Medieval and Renaissance Culinary Terms Extremely
useful; in progress. Click here for a similar medieval
culinary glossary in Dutch (with English translations),
compiled
by Ria Jansen-Sieben, Elly Cockx-Indestege, and others. Click
here
for a very useful glossary of medieval
Italian and English culinary terms .
William
Rothwell,
Articles on Anglo-Norman food vocabulary Online
versions
of articles originally published in linguistics journals.
British
Library website on Medieval Food Features photographs,
transcriptions and modern English translations of Middle English
cookery manuscripts in the library's
collection, and
descriptions of the food of the period. See also the
associated websites on 1500s
Food,
1600s
Food, 1700s
Food, 1800s
Food,
and 1900s
Food. Unfortunately, the transcriptions and
translations of the
medieval texts are full of errors, and there are similar errors
in the transcriptions of the 16th-century texts. No translations
are provided to post-medieval texts.
Tom Jaine (ed.), Glossary of 17th- and 18th-century English cooking terms Composite of glossaries originally prepared by Elizabeth David, Alan Davidson, Caroline Davidson, and Jaine himself to accompany reprints of early modern cookbooks. An outstanding resource.
Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages An exceptionally useful online encyclopedia of herbs and spices. In English or German.
Spices in Medieval Europe Brief but useful discussion of the major medieval spices, with comments on their use in medieval recipe collections. Part of the "Maître Chiquart" Web site. In English.
John Munro, "The Consumption of Spices and Their Costs in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: Luxuries or Necessities?" Includes graphs on the prices of spices, and their affordability on a master craftsman's wages in 15th-century London.
Viking
foods
Useful, fully-documented discussion of the Viking diet and Viking
cookery,
with a few sample recipes adapted for modern kitchens, by Christie
Ward.
In English.
Anthimus, De observatione ciborum (Latin, 6th cent.) Treatise on food and diet in the form of a letter addressed to Theuderic [I], king of the Franks, by a Greek physician resident at the court of Theodoric the Ostrogoth.
Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalicon, Book II, chap. 25, "On Hunting" (Latin, 1120s) (Scroll down to "Caput XXV".) Although ostensibly on hunting, this brief chapter in Hugh of St. Victor's encyclopedic survey includes a more general essay on the various classifications of food. In Latin.
Regimen sanitatis Salerni (Latin, ?12th-13th cent.) Health and diet regimen, in verse. Click here for another copy of the Latin text. Click here for an English translation by Thomas Paynel (1535) . Click here for Sir John Harington's translation, The Englishmans Doctor (English, 1608) . His full title reads: The Englishmans Doctor, Or,The School of Salerne,Or, Physical observations for the perfect Preserving of the body of Man in continual health. Click here for a modern English translation from Patricia Willett Cummins, A Critical Edition of Le Regime Tresutile et tresproufitable pour Conserver et Garder la Santé du Corps Humain (1976). James L. Matterer supplies a useful introduction to the online translation.
De flore dietarum (Latin, early 13th cent.) Salernitan treatise on the humoral properties of various foods and drinks, compiled at the beginning of the 13th century, and originally attributed to Constantinus Africanus. Edited by Piero Cantalupo (1992).
Libellus de arte coquinaria ("The Harpestreng cookbook," Codex K, Latin and Danish, 13th cent.) The oldest known medieval Western recipe collection, originally written in Latin or French, probably in the late 12th or early 13th century, and later translated from Middle Low German into Danish, possibly by the royal physician Henrik Harpestraeng (d. 1244). Codex K (Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, Ny kgl. Samling, nr. 66, 8v°, ff. 140r-146v), with 25 recipes, dates from c. 1300; it was edited by M. Kristensen (1908-20). Click here for photographs of Codex K. Click here for Codex Q (Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, Ny kgl. Samling, nr. 70 R, 8v°, 5ff.), another Danish translation, with 31 recipes, dating from c. 1350. It was edited by C. Molbech in Historisk Tidsskrift, vol. 5 (København, 1844), pp. 540 - 546. A German version of this recipe collection is embedded in the 15th-century Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch (see below).
"Anonymous Andalusian cookbook": Kitab al-tabikh fi al-Maghrib wal-Andalus (Arabic, early 13th cent.) A collection of 543 recipes, translated here into English by Charles Perry, from the edition by Ambrosio Huici Miranda (La Cocina Hispano-Magrebi en la Epoca Almohade, 1965). Click here for a searchable index of this collection.
Abu l-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abí l-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abí Bakr ibn Razin al-Tuyibi al-Andalusí, Fedalat Al-Jiwan fi tayyibat al-ta'am wa-l-alwan (Arabic, c. 1228-1243) Extracts, in a modern Spanish translation, from a collection of 441 recipes written in Andalusia. From a doctoral thesis by Fernando de la Granja Santamaría, "La cocina arabigoandaluza según un manuscrito inédito" (Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1960).
Aldobrandino da Siena (Aldebrandin de Sienne): Two chapters from La flours et la rose de toute medicine et fisisque, later known as Le Régime du corps (French, end of 13th - beginning of 14th cent.) The first two chapters of Part III: De totes manieres de blé, et du pain c'on en fait, and De totes manieres de buverages. From the edition by Louis Landouzy and Roger Pépin (1911). Click here for a photograph of an early manuscript (Paris, BnF, Arsenal, manuscrit 2510, fol. 49v), and here for another manuscript (Paris, BnF, Département des manuscrits, Français 12323, fol. 128v).
Viandier (French, second half of 13th cent.) The earliest extant collection of these recipes (the Sion manuscript), written on a parchment roll c. 1250-1300 or possibly a few years later, from the edition of Paul Aebischer (1953). The text was revised in the late 1300s and attributed to the royal cook Guillaume Tirel, known as "Taillevent" (c. 1315-95). Click here for the text of the Vatican manuscript of Tirel's version, from the edition of Jérôme Pichon and Georges Vicaire (1892), pp. 73-136; with an English translation by James Prescott. Click here for a searchable index to Prescott's translation. Click here for a description of the extant MSS (in French). Click here for photographs of a 14th-cent. manuscript and of early printed editions . Click here for extracts and facsimile pages from 15th- and 16th-cent. editions . Click here for a transcript of the printed edition of c. 1485/90 , which contains a large collection of 15th-century recipes grafted onto a selection of the earlier recipes, plus menus dating from 1455. It is taken from Jérôme Pichon and Georges Vicaire, eds., Le Viandier de Guillaume Tirel dit Taillevent (Paris, 1892; reprint Geneva: Slatkine, 1967, and Luzarches: Daniel Morcrette, n.d.), pp. 141-199 ("Le Viandier de Taillevent -- Édition du XVe siècle").
Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes (French, 1304-14) Contains 46 recipes. From the edition by Grégoire Lozinski in La bataille de caresme et de charnage (1933), pp. 181-187. Click here for a photograph of the original manuscript (Paris, BNF, Manuscrit Latin 7131, fol. 99v). Click here for another copy of the same photograph . Click here for a modern English translation by Daniel Myers. Click here for a searchable index of Myers' translation.
Tractatus de modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria (Latin, beginning of 14th cent.) Contains about 80 recipes. From the edition of Marianne Mulon, "Deux traités inédits d'art culinaire médiéval," in Bulletin philologique et historique (jusqu'à 1610) du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Année 1968: Actes du 93e Congrès national des Sociétés savantes tenu à Tours. Volume 1: Les problèmes de l'alimentation (Paris, 1971, pp. 369-435; Tractatus, pp. 380-395.) Click here for a photograph of the manuscript (Paris, BnF, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9328, fols. 129r-133v). (To see sample pages from Robert Maier's new Latin-German edition of the Liber de coquina, together with the Tractatus de modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria, click here.)Magninus Mediolanensis, Regimen sanitatis (Latin, c. early 1330s) Treatise on health and diet, by Maino de' Maineri of Milan, lecturer at the medical school at Paris. Scanned pages of the Strassburg edition of 1503.
Magninus Mediolanensis, Opusculum de saporibus (Latin, c. early 1330s) A collection of sauce recipes by Maino de' Maineri of Milan, lecturer at the medical school at Paris, which forms part of the author's dietetic treatise, Regimen sanitatis. Edited by Lynn Thorndike (1934) from Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS VIII. D. 35, ff. 52rb-53va.
Das buch von guter spise (Daz buoch von guoter spise) (German, 1345-54) Collection of 96 recipes ("The Book of Good Food"), from a household manual compiled by Michael de Leone, proto-notary of the archbishop of Wurzburg, giving the original text, a modern English translation, and an index of the animals represented in the recipes. This is an edition of the two extant MSS: (A) the original Würzburg MS (1345 x 1354), now München Universitãtsbibliothek, *2º Cod. MS 731 (Cim. 4), ff. 156ra-165vb, and (B) the later Dessau MS (c. 1400 x 1450), Anhaltische Landesbücherei, MS Georg. 278.2o, ff. 123v-132v. The edition from which this text and translation are taken is unidentified, but it is probably Melitta Weiss Adamson's Daz buoch von guoter spise (The Book of Good Food). A Study, Edition, and English Translation of the Oldest German Cookbook, Medium Aevum Quotidianum, Sonderband IX (Krems, 2000). The animal index is by J. Rasson. Click here for another copy of the text from the Würzburg-Münchener MS , edited by Hans Hajek (1958), and for an earlier (1844) edition of the text with an uneven English translation by Alia Atlas. Click here for a searchable index of Atlas's translation. Click here for a photograph of the Würzburg-Münchener manuscript with a modern German translation of the recipe for "Rheingauer Hühner."
The Forme of Cury (English, c. 1390s) and Ancient Cookery (English, c. 1381) A facsimile of Samuel Pegge's edition of these recipe collections (1780), taken, respectively, from British Library, Additional MS 5016 (roll), and Bodleian Library, MS Douce 257, ff. 86r-96v (under the title "Diuersa servicia"). Click here for a typescript version of Pegge's edition, by Project Gutenberg (flawed by scanning errors, e.g., "f" for tall "s" and "a" for "æ"). Click here for a searchable index of The Forme of Cury , and for an index to the original recipes with modern adaptations.
Menus for feasts, 1397 and 1443 (English) Banquet given by John of Gaunt for Richard II at Durham Place, London (the text dates this to 1387, but the correct date is 1397); and installation banquet of John Stafford, archbishop of Canterbury. From the edition of Thomas Austin (1888).
Le ménagier de Paris (French, c. 1393) From the edition of Jérôme Pichon (1846), pp. 80-210 (chapter on food and cookery). (Click here for a mirror of the same site .) Click here for a photograph of a 15th-cent. manuscript . Click here for an English translation by Janet Hinson. Click here for a searchable index of the English translation.
Two
royal banquet menus (English, c. 1390s)
Menus for a feast given for Richard II by "Lord Spenser" (Thomas
le Despenser, created earl of Gloucester 29 Sept. 1397), and for
a feast at the king's court. From the edition of Constance
B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler (1985), with added
translation
into modern English.
"Anonymous Southerner," Book A: "Limonia" (Italian, late 14th-early 15th cent.) See also recipes for kid pie and hare stew . Click here for a brief description of this recipe collection .
Illustrations from the Tacuinum sanitatis (Latin, late 14th-early 15th cent.) These images illustrate passages in the text concerning the humoral properties and effects on health of various foods.
Chiquart Amiczo, Du fait de cuisine (French, 1420) Master Chiquart was chief cook to the duke of Savoy. English translation by Elizabeth Cook. Click here for a searchable index of this collection. Click here for an extract describing the supplies needed for a grand feast . Click here for a photograph of the manuscript (f. 70r) , with a transcription and a modern French translation.
Johannes de Bockenheim, Registrum coquine (Latin, 1431-1435) Photograph of a folio from one of the two extant manuscripts, showing recipes 28 (Easter lamb) and 29 (tortas pro nobilibus). Paris, BNF, Département des manuscrits, Latin 7054. See also Bockenheim's recipe for hemp-seed soup , and a brief biography of him.
Two Fifteenth-Century Cookbooks (English, c. 1430 and 1450) British Library, MSS. Harley 279 (c. 1430) and Harley 4016 (c. 1450), with extracts from Bodleian Library, MSS Ashmole 1439, Laud 553, and Douce 55. Edited by Thomas Austin (1888, rpt 1964). Click here for a searchable index of the recipes. Click here for a searchable index to this collection. Click here for an translation (with modernized recipes) of a dinner menu for the feast of the Holy Trinity from Harley 279.
Rheinfränkisches Kochbuch (German, c. 1445) Sample folio, with transcription and modern German translation, of Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 244 (folio 285r). From the edition by Thomas Gloning (1998). Click here for two other photographs of the MS ( folios 290v and 293r), showing recipes for "Rheingauer Hühner" with modern German translations (scroll down page to recipes beginning "Willst du Pasteten machen" and "Nimm Wein und Honig").
Liber cure cocorum (English, c. temp. Henry VI) Cookbook in doggerel verse, from British Library, MS. Sloane 1986, ff. 27r-56v, edited by Richard Morris (1862). Click here for another copy, and for a parallel transcription and modern translation , with notes, by Cindy Renfrow. Click here for a searchable index of the recipes.
Martino Rossi (or da Como; "Maestro Martino"), Libro de arte coquinaria (Italian, c. late 1450s) Edited by Emilio Faccioli (1966). See also English translations of Master Martino's recipes for cheese pie with herbs, rice with almond milk , sturgeon , and eggnog . Click here for a brief biography of Master Martino .
Ein alemannisches Büchlein von guter Speise (German, 15th cent.) From the edition by Anton Birlinger (1865). Click here for two photographs of the manuscript (Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 284, folios 103v-104r), containing a recipe for "Rheingauer Hühner", with a modern German translation. (Scroll down to recipe beginning "Willst du eine Pastete machen," followed by snippet beginning "Und backe es in einem Ofen.")
Ein mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch (German, 15th cent.) Edited by Hans Wiswe (1956). Recipes 56-71 duplicate those of the 13th-century "Harpestreng" cookbook (see above).
Libre de totes maneres de confits (Catalan, 15th cent.) Recipes for preserves, edited by Luis Faraudo de Saint-Germain (1946).
Aus der Küche der deutschen Ordensritter (German, c. 1450-1500) The earliest known cookbook from East Prussia (Königsberg), edited by H. Gollub in Prussia, 31 (1935), 118-24, from a manuscript in Berlin (Geh. Staatsarchiv Preuß. Kulturbesitz, XX. HA OBA 18384). See also R. G. Päsler, "Deutschsprachige Sachliteratur im Preußenland bis 1500. Untersuchungen zu ihrer Überlieferung." (Diss. phil., Oldenburg, 1999).
Gentyll
manly Cokere (English, later 15th cent.) Facsimiles of
culinary
recipes from Magdalene College, Cambridge, MS Pepys 1047, originally
published
in a flawed edition by Gerald Hodgett as Stere Htt Welle (1972).
New transcriptions are provided here by James L. Matterer, who also
intends
to supply modern English translations and adaptations for the modern
cook.
In progress.
Graz, University Library (UBG), MS 1609 (German, late 15th cent.) Two sample fast-day recipes, one for making imitation eggs out of pike and ginger, and the other for a walnut sauce for fish, with modern adaptations. In German.
Alte
Kockrezepte aus dem bayrischen Inntal (German, 15th-16th cent.)
Edited by Berthilde Danner (1970). Click here for an English
translation by Volker Bach.
Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria (Portuguese, late 15th- early 16th cent.) Extracts from the edition by Giacinto Manuppela (Lisbon, 1986) of MS I. E 33 in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples. The Infanta Maria of Portugal (1538-77) married Alessandro Farnese in 1565, and this manuscript, which contains 73 folios and includes some Farnese texts, probably belonged to her. The collection of 67 culinary recipes is untitled and undated, and written in a variety of hands of c. 1480 - c.1510. Click here for a description of the manuscript in French and another description in Portuguese (with bibliographic references), and for a photo of Recipe I and a photo of Recipe LXVI. The collection called Um tratado da cozinha portuguesa do século XV appears to be a modern Portuguese adaptation of this recipe collection, with measures given in liters, grams, and kilos, by Antonio Gomes Filho (1963). Click here for a modern English translation (PDF file) or HTML version [by Jane L. Crowley?] of the latter. Click here for a searchable index to this translation.
Hermolaus
Barbarus (Ermolao Barbaro), description of an Italian wedding banquet
(Latin,
1488) This description was translated into French by Michel
Nostradamus
and published in 1555.
Robert
de Nola, Libre de doctrina per a ben servir, de tallar y del art de
coch (Catalan, late 15th - early 16th cent.) Recipe
collection and description of servants' duties by Master Robert, cook
to
Ferrando (Ferrante or Ferdinand), King of Naples. The earliest printed
culinary text in Catalan (Barcelona, 1520). Click here for
photographs
of the original edition. For an English translation by Robin
Carroll-Mann
of a later Spanish edition of de Nola's book (Logrono, 1529), click
here
for Part
One; click here for Part
Two . Click here for a searchable
index of this collection.
Wel ende edelike spijse (Dutch, c. 1500) Edited in 1872 by C. A. Serrure under the title Keukenboek, uitgegeven naar een handschrift der vijftiende eeuw. Click here for a modern English translation (in progress) by Christianne Muusers, who also provides a translation into modern Dutch. The text begins: "Desen bouc leert wel ende edelike spijse te bereedene tetene also als hier naer volcht" ("This book teaches [one] to prepare good and noble food to be eaten, as follows"). Click here for a searchable index to this translation.
Le Platine en francoys (French, 1505) Scanned photographs of the early French version of the Latin De honesta voluptate, compiled by Bartolomeo S
