[Sca-cooks] QUESTION ABOUT PRIMARY SOURCES

[Terry Decker]

No, they are usually part of a manuscript collection, which may not have
been examined in centuries.  For instance there are thousands of official
documents from the Spanish colonization of the New World which are still
baled, waiting to be gone over, in the Archives of the Indies in Seville.
The actually lost many when the library flooded.

The two 14th Century cookbooks were in the Harliean collection.

And I suspect, the herald's reports are either maintained by the English
heralds or are someplace like the Royal London Archives.

In fact, documents which I have written as part of various computerization
studies are archived awaiting criminal investigators or historians, whoever
gets around to using them first.

Bear

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>Thanks Bear,
>Were the manuscripts just kept as odd bits of paper in someone's attic?
>Phillipa
>> For the same reason the Harliean manuscripts from the 14th Century
weren't
>> publihed until the 19th Century.  It wasn't until then that the official
>> records were gathered, collated and published by an editor who was
>> interested in them.