SC - Andalusian Cookbook now webbed

[Philip & Susan Troy]

david friedman wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty sure that Grewe and Perry knew each other; I believe there
> was  talk of Perry completing some of the work left unfinished by
> Grewe when he died. Perry was working from both the Arabic original
> and an English translation of Huici Miranda's Spanish that I had
> organized. My guess is that he did a less thorough job than he would
> have in a published scholarly version--at least, I know he has
> corrections he now wants to make, although he hasn't gotten around to
> sending them to me.

I may have misunderstood you earlier, then. I hear the Manuscrito
Anonimo is in Volume II of your Collection, but I had heard somewhere (I
thought from you) that it had been withdrawn _because_ Mr. Perry had
some corrections he wanted to make, and that it would be back when the
corrections were made. I'd assumed, when you webbed this, that they were
made. So I could have had the Perry "first edition" all this time, and
stuck with the old one-volume collection?
 
> Also, I think the Arabic version Perry was working from was Miranda's
> published version of the original, not actual photocopies of the
> manuscript, although I'm not sure. Grewe may have been planning to
> work from several surviving manuscripts of the book--I don't know if
> there is more than one--and improve on Miranda's reading of the
> Arabic.

Grewe claimed there were serious errors in the Miranda edition, with
recipe names and recipes transposed, entire paragraphs missing, etc. But
then Grewe had a slight bee in his bonnet on the subject of
transposition and omission, which is perfectly understandable in a MS
like this one, with its several instances of recipes with either the
same name, or names with words in common, in series. Certainly it would
be nice to have all the recipes, correctly titled, in the correct order.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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