[Sca-cooks] transcription and translation projects

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius suggested:
 >>>>
Maybe we should ask for a
show of hands, and get people to talk about the transcription and
translation projects they've been involved in, in getting some of
this previously hard-to-access material out there and easily
accessible. Say, in the past five years? Just to show how the pool of
resources has grown? For example, in addition to cooking and teaching
in the SCA, I went out and located an old printed copy of a 15th-
century English cookbook in verse, scanned it, got it transcribed,
and now it's webbed. I'm working on a translation of the late-13th/
early-14th-century Enseignements. I suspect there are at least a
dozen comparable projects done by members of this list in the past
few years, and these are all going to be sources that the average
hobbyist didn't easily have access to several years ago.
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Well, I know there are other sites out there with a lot more  
transcriptions available, but here is what is available in the  
Florilegium in the FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS section:
About-Cheese-art  (12K)  3/ 4/05    "About Cheese" A tranlation by  
Aelianora de
                                        Wintringham of a 1556 letter  
on Swiss
                                        cheese and dairy products.
Eberhard-art      (91K)  6/29/05    A 15th century German recipe  
collection
                                        translated by Giano Balestriere.
Enseignements-art (16K) 10/ 9/05    A translation of a 14th C. German  
manuscript
                                        on preparing meats by Daniel  
Myers (Doc).
Guisados1-art    (220K)  5/28/01    A translation of Ruperto de Nola's
                                        1529 "Libre del Coch", part 1  
of 2
                                        by Lady Brighid ni Chiarain.
Guisados2-art    (116K)  5/28/01    "Libre del Coch". part 2 of 2.
                                        Lenten recipes.
Inntal-art        (32K)  6/29/05    An early 16th century recipe  
collection from
                                        Bavaria translated by Giano  
Balestriere.
Konigsberg-art    (28K)  6/29/05    A 15th century cookbook from East  
Prussia
                                        translated by Giano Balestriere.
Romanian-ckbk-art (112K)  1/25/04    "A Translation of a 17th Century  
Romanian
                                        Cookbook" by Lord Petru cel  
paros Voda.

Adamantius, you mention above that you are working on a trnslation of  
Enseignements. I don't know that there is a problem with having a  
second translation of a single document, especially if you have a  
particular personal reason for wanting to translate that particular  
document. We have spent quite an amount of time, discussing and  
comparing the various translations of Apicius, for instance.

However, many of these projects are just transcriptions or  
translations, such as I believe, Enseignements for instance. I think  
I'd find a set of redactions, from you, of Enseignements rather than  
another translation to be much more useful.

And yes folks, I'd be interested in hosting the outputs of other  
translation or transcription projects that you might be working on. I  
have no requirements of exclusivity or any requirement that you  
finish your work before adding it to the Florilegium. Since I take  
updates at any time, getting your work online gives the option of  
letting other people review the work you've done so far, and then  
using their inputs to improve things and repost it.

Stefan
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