[Sca-cooks] a worrisome quote from Le Menagier

[Johnna Holloway]

Good idea.
Power in The Goodman of Paris translates this as:
Item, you may know the age of a hare from the number of holes that be 
beneath the
tail, for so many holes, so many years.

p.225 from the chapter "How to order dinners and suppers."
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I have at hand---

Brereton and Ferrier's edition of Le Menagier de Paris on page 174 item 
22  (Section II iv) gives this passage as

[22. ]"Item, l'en congnoist l'aage d'un lierve au nombre des pertuiz qui 
sont dessoubz la queue; car pour tant
de pertuiz tant d'ans."

This carries the note --- "dun nombre au AC."
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I also have at hand:

Le Mesnagier de Paris which is Brereton and Ferrier's edition of Le 
Menagier de Paris translated into
modern French by Karin Ueltschi [Librairie Generale Francaise, 1994] 
provides another glimpse.

The Brereton/Ferrier text in question for item 22 (as given above) is on 
page 548.
The facing text on page 549 for item 22 reads:

22. Item, on peut e'valuer l'age d'un li`evre au nombre de trous qu'il a 
sous la queue : le nombre de trous
equivaut au nombre d'annees.
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I also have at hand the Slatkine Reprints edition of Le Menagier de 
Paris (Geneve) which in volume two
under Le Menagier, D. II, A. IV p 90
Item, l'en congnist l'aage d'un lievre au nombre des pertuis qui sont 
dessoubs la queue, car pour tant de pertuis,
tant d'ans.

Does this help or hinder the conversation?

Johnnae llyn Lewis







>I will venture out on a limb and say that there is a distinct possibility
>that it is a mistranslation. Just my own personal thought.
>Where in the text does it occur? I can check and see how Eileen Power
>translated it.-Serena da Riva
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>>Howdy,Not only am I having a hard time coming to terms with the passage
>>below, but I have the feeling I really don't want to.
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>>"Item, you can tell the age of a hare from the number of openings under
>>its tail, for there will be as many openings as years."
>>Le Menagier de Paris (Janet Hinson, trans.)
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