SC - Borde 1542 on feasant and partridge

Thomas Gloning Thomas.Gloning at germanistik.uni-giessen.de
Thu Oct 14 17:47:33 PDT 1999


I made an attempt to scan in page 269 of the 1870 Borde edition. It
worked not too bad and there seems to be not _too_ much labour of proof
reading. If I am not mistaken, there should be not copyright problems.
The ~ 80 pages could be done, say, in two or three days or nights ...

Here is a passage about feasants and partridges ( (AL) is the
alinea-sign ):
>>>
[269]
(...)
(AL) The .xv. Chapitre treateth of wylde
fowle, and tame fowle
[and] byrdes.

OF all wylde foule, the Feasaunt
is most beste, Althoughe that
a partreche of all fowles is
soonest dygested; wherfore it
is a restoratyue meate, and
dothe comforte the brayne
and the stomacke, & doth
augment carnall lust. A wood-cocke is a meate of
[270]
(...)
>>>

Thomas
(Magninus has also a passage on feasants with some medical advice how
feasants are to be prepared in spring and in winter; see Scully 1985,
191ff.; Thorndike 1934, 187.)

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