[Sca-cooks] Interesting find from Bib. Palatina

Robin Carroll-Mann rcarrollmann at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 08:24:58 PDT 2013


I'm not much of a Latinist, but I can stumble my way through this one.
Personally, I'd prefer to use ketchup, not mustard, but for the sake of
authenticity, I'd be faithful to the recipe.

Do you want fries with that?  ;-)

Brighid ni Chiarain

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Volker Bach <carlton_bach at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Now that the Vatican collections are being digitised, we get access to all
> kinds of iunteresting stuff. A colleague just pointed me to the glosses in
> a collection of medical texts, which seem to be quite interesting.
>
>
> http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpl1080/0329?sid=a50e1a9a68662cbac89e4eb3db56f2e
>
> I've tried my best to transcribe the text, and it looks like this:
>
> Ad Scotorum [prandium?] recipe de carne
> vaccarum, bene tunde et distemp[e]ra cum ovis [last two words crossed
> out by a different hand]. Manu abluto fac bullae ad assandum super
> carbones. Ut bene assati, panes similia imple[ne] cum eis et mostardum,
> et cipparum cucumerarumve minutis rotulis, et cum lactucas et [illegible].
> Aliqui caseum superponunt. Mitte ad tabulam et eduntur manis
> solis.
>
> (Vatican Bibliotheca Palatina lat 1080 MS, gloss to the Liber de
> Ferculis Malis, dated early 14th century)
>
> I must admit I've never seen anything like it before. Ideas for a
> redaction, anyone?
>



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