[Sca-cooks] 14th c archive discovery
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Sun Mar 30 09:59:46 PDT 2014
So, who wants to labor through some transcription?
https://www.facebook.com/MertonCollegeLibrary
"It is one of a number of supporting documents attached to the account
roll of John de Viliers, bursar in 1334-5, and comprises a list of luxury
foodstuffs, including rice, sugar, spices and dried fruit. Since paper-making
was not introduced to northern Europe until the late fourteenth century, it
may have come from Italy, France or Spain, or perhaps even the eastern
Mediterranean."
Courtesy of the MED-MED list.
Jim Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)
Early Medieval French wine
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/early-medieval-french-wine.html
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