[Sca-cooks] Re:Proper Newe Booke was Please Update Your Project Listings

[johnna holloway]

This is my area of professional bibliographic
interest, so I can mention off the top of my
head that...

Good Huswife's handmaide has been done also.
Both parts of Dawson are out in an edition
that was edited in the 1990's.
Booke of Cookery 1500 has copyright and access
problems tied up with it.
You might check the Acanthus site to see what
else has been done from this era. Amanda carries
everything that Stuart Press has done. They
have at least 20 volumes in print on Tudor-Eliz.-
Jacobean foods.
With these up now on EEBO also, it's not quite as
important to have them transcribed. Although all
were available on the microfilm previously, having
them online through EEBO makes them more accessible
to the general public and Society audience. And if
Proquest actually succeeds with their intentions, most
may be transcribed as part of their overall goal of
making the texts keyword searchable w/i the next 5
years. There are a number of problems with some of
the EEBO texts however which is why we need scholarly
projects that also look at the actual books.... and
not just look at what UMI/Proquest/EEBO is giving us.
In the long term, what would
be more valuable would be to have editions that
cover the full range of the works, all the editions,
all the changes in texts, all the MSS sources identified,
etc. for a particular author or title. This would be
a scholarly project more on the order of the Hieatt and
Grewe Libellus de Arte Coquinaria where all four
versions of the manuscript are explored and described.


Johnnae llyn Lewis
Johnna Holloway



Louise Smithson wrote:>
> Ah well, good job I only did the first five pages.
 I didn't know about that transcription.
Guess I'll just pick another one.
> I also have access to:
> booke of cookery 1500
> the huswiues closet 1573
> widowes treasure 1588
> huswiues iewell part 2 1597
> good huswiues handmaid 1597
> Any preferences?