SC - Pynson book in Longleat collection

[Terry Nutter]

Hi, Katerine back again.

Here's the scoop on that Pynson book.  There are three copies of the collection
in NBoC extant.  One, the copy Napier worked from, is a manuscript in the
private collection of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham.  The second, also a
manuscript, is in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries.  And the
third as set in print by Pynson and published in 1500.  The title page says 
"This is the boke of Cokery".  The text begins "Here beginneth a noble boke 
of festes royalle and Cokery a boke for a pryncis housholde."  It is the same
collection, but more complete than the manuscript that Napier worked from.

This is almost of a surety the book from which the original of the recipe 
Liliane posted here came.  There is no simple or straightforward way to check
what the original actually said and reproduce it.  (My source has access to
that information, but is bound by strict agreements on the terms of that
access not to distribute the contents.)

Anyhow, that at least identifies the source more precisely.  Now if only
he'd given the *original* original, along with his modernization, so that
we could see what it said.  *sigh*

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry