[Elfsea] FW: [Steppes] of interest to period cooking lovers

[Miss M Brow]

How cool is this???!!! c'mon 2009!> From: duncan at stormypetrel.org> To: steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:11:50 -0500> Subject: [Steppes] of interest to period cooking lovers> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10> > Library to share 14th-century royal cookbook online> > Collection of recipes compiled by King Richard II's cooks among several> works being digitised for viewing on internet> > A rare medieval cookbook is to be digitally photographed page by page and> the results uploaded to the internet for gourmands around the globe to> study.> > Forme of Cury, a recipe book compiled by King Richard II's master cooks> in 1390, details around 205 dishes cooked in the royal household and> sheds light on a little-studied element of life in the Dark Ages.> > Written in Middle English, it contains the instructions for creating long-> forgotten dishes such as blank mang (a sweet dish of meat, milk, sugar> and almonds), mortrews (ground and spiced pork), and the original quiche,> known in 14th century kitchens as custard.> > It is one of 40 literary treasures being made freely available on the> internet for the first time by the University of Manchester's John> Rylands University Library.> > Other Middle English manuscripts to be digitised and put online include> one of the earliest existing editions of the complete Canterbury Tales by> Chaucer, John Lydgate's two major poems Troy Book and Fall of Princes and> 500-year-old translations of the Bible into English.> > The project will reunite fragments of a 15th-century manuscript of> Chaucer's Miller's Tale, in an online collaboration with the Rosenbach> Museum and Library in Philadelphia.> > The work, which will be carried out using a state-of-the-art high-> definition camera, will begin next month and is due to be completed by> late 2009.> > Jan Wilkinson, the director of the John Rylands library, said: "The> library's Middle English manuscripts are a research resource of immense> significance. Yet the manuscripts are inherently fragile, and until now> access to them has been restricted by the lack of digital copies.> Digitisation will make them available to everyone.> > "For the first time it will be possible to compare our manuscripts> directly with other versions of the texts in libraries located across the> world, opening up opportunities for new areas of research. We hope that> this will be the beginning of a wider digitisation programme, which will> unlock the tremendous potential of our medieval manuscripts and printed> books for the benefit of the academic community and the wider public."> > _______________________________________________> Steppes mailing list> Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/steppes-ansteorra.org
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