SC - Re: Kuskenole - was, Authenticity, philosophy, and advocacy

[Elaine Koogler]

Sounds plausible to me....kind of like the situation in Babylon 5 where G'Kar
explains a ring mark in a copy of a book he had written, stating that everything
was included when a book was recopied!  The ring was a coffee ring from where
another character had been reading the book.  Yeah, I know...it's off topic,
even 'way out of period.  But, hey...it applies!

Kiri

ChannonM at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/22/00 11:03:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:
>
> > 2. Your explanation doesn't explain why the figure exists in the
> >  > first place, since the figure isn't telling you anything beyond "fold
> >  > it into a square and seal down the edges." But on my interpretation,
> >  > the figure is actually necessary to explain the pattern of what is
> >  > being done.
> >
> >  Necessary, perhaps. Adequate, no. For example, if I put myself into the
> >  shoes of a moderately experienced cook, someone who can read, boil water
> >  and follow instructions, I see no reason why I couldn't follow the
> >  instructions given in the Miscellany version and get what is portrayed
> >  in the diagram, even without the diagram. How much added text is really
> >  required to express those instructions (a line or two?), and if you
> >  could do that, why couldn't our Anglo-Norman buddies, if they wanted or
> >  needed to? Obviously they could, but didn't. One explanation is that the
> >  process is not intended, and another is that the diagram substitutes for
> >  the textual description.
> >
>
> This is just an observation;
> What if the scribe was trying to figure out/understand what the recipe said
> and drew it out in the manuscript as he/she read the recipe? Subsequently,
> the next copier of the text repeats the drawing , but then doesn't know the
> impetus for the first one.
>
> Kind of like margin notes?
>
> Ignore me, I'm babbling.
>
> Hauviette
>
>
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