[Sca-cooks] Napier A Noble Boke off Cookry on Google Books

[Johnna Holloway]

I thought about that too, but these look like strokes and not an n or an e.
After we move the student to college (empty nest awaits), I'll take a 
good look and compare
all the instances. Sometime in September.

Johnnae


edoard at medievalcookery.com wrote:
> regarding Napier's ung 
> I always assumed this was a mis-transcription of the French indefinite
> article, "une" (meaning "a" or "one").  There is a quirky form of the
> letter "e" in some medieval manuscripts that could easily be
> misinterpreted as a "g".
>
> - Doc
>