[Sca-cooks] French table Service and Web site

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:55 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:

>Greetings,
>I went and checked, and it seems that the portion of the site that is
>available in English is less than 1/3 of what is in French. I looked to see
>if they provided an English translation of the passage and they do not. So,
>here is what is in my book:
>
>"When the lord arrives at the banquet hall and takes his seat the steward
>calls the cup-bearer, who leaves the table and goes to the sideboard.

<snip>

Interesting. I think you'll find a number of texts that are similar if not 
identical. The _Boke of Curtasye_, _Boke of Kervynge_, _Ffor to Serve a 
Lord_, etcare available from EETS and/or EEMM. A run through World Cat 
should pop them up.

>The book also provides an additional small quote from the same text:
>"...the lord's jug should be distinguished by the pieces of unicorn horn
>hanging from a cord."
>And the author goes on to speculate that the strange 't' shaped pieces
>attached to both the cup-bearer's pouch and the carver's pouch in the Tres
>Riches Heurs miniature are unicorn horn pieces. Unicorn horn being believed
>to turn black in the presence of poison.

Uh, no, those look like bollucks daggers to me. There's also one in the 
August plate (guy in the parti green/grey on the far left).

'Lainie
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