[Sca-cooks] Re: Book of Quinte Essence

[rcmann4 at earthlink.net]

On 16 Jun 01,, Ted Eisenstein wrote:

> I came across a reference to this earlier today. A vague memory suggests that this
> may be a book about eating, or cooking, or even possibly vintning, brewing,
> herbalism, or something in some way vaguely connected with cooking or
> gardening. Does anyone hereabouts know what it is?
> Furnivall, F.J., ed., Book of Quinte Essence Sloane MS 73 (It's part of the Early
> English Text Society series.)
>
> Alban

There's a transcription of it here:
http://www.tigerden.com/~lilith/Library/Unknown/quintess.html

Seems to be an alchemical treatise.


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mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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