[Sca-cooks] Online facsimiles (mostly in Spanish)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Someone on the Medieval Spain list shared some links to online sources of 
historic documents.  One of these is the BIBLIOTECA VIRTUAL 
DIOSCORIDES, which comtains hundreds of facsimile documents, mostly in 
Spanish, though there are a handful in other languages. They are pre-1900 
books related to medicine and health, but there are quite a few of interest to 
us cooks.  In Spanish, there are herbals and pharmaceutical manuals, 
there's a facsimile of Alonso de Hererra's 1513 agricultural manual, and a 
1572 health manual, which I think is about to become my new translation 
project. 

For the Italophiles, there's a facsimile of Scappi's Opera


http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi/g?SEARCH=DIOSCORIDES


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net