SC - Polish spice question

[ana l. valdes]

At 10:45 PM +0200 7/28/99, Thomas Gloning wrote:


>You mentioned a Kitab al-Tabikh in a Manuscript 'Oriental 5000' of the
>British library.
>
>Is it edited and/or translated somewhere?
>
>Besides the Kitab al-Tabikh that Arberry used for his translation in
>'Islamic Culture' 1939, he mentions another one in the Bodleian Library
>in Oxford (Hunt 187): Kitab al-Tabikh by Abu Muhammad al-Muzaffar b.
>Nasr ibn Saiyar al Warraq. Arberry says: "I hope to show in a
>forthcoming paper that this work which is of the greatest interest, was
>written some time during the 4/10th century, by a writer who had access
>to the actual recipe-book of the Abbasid Caliphs" (p. 30 note 5).
>
>Where, if ever, did this paper appear?

I don't know about the paper, but the Arabic text of the cookbook was
published by Studia Orientalia in Helsinki some years back.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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