Peter wrote:
> Greetings to the List.
>
> We are offering an uncommon title on Ebay.
>
> Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books, Edited by Thomas Austin.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....tem=7037283238
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> Starting price: $19.95
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> Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books, Edited by Thomas Austin.
> Harleian Manuscript 279 (about 1430) and Harleian Manuscript 4016 (about
> 1450). With extracts from Ashmole Manuscript 1429, Laud Manuscript 553
> and Douce Manuscript 55. London: Published for The Early English Text
> Society by N. Trubner & Co. 1888. Bound in with two other unrelated old
> English items.
>
> Several hundred recipes, from mainly two C15th manuscripts, herewith
> published for the first time in book form. First edition thus in
> published form. The manuscripts are currently in the British and
> Bodleian Libraries. The cookery books contain many rare and
> extraordinary medieval recipes. They include an astonishing variety of
> ingredients and dishes no longer "fashionable". eg. whale, porpoise,
> seal, swan, crane, heron, peacock; Pudding of Swan Neck. Includes
> contents of famous feasts such as the banquet of the coronation of
> Henry the Fourth.
>
> The text of many recipes in earlier English.
>
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> Thank you.
>
> Peter Krantz
> International Bookfinders
> Sydney
>

what type of writing do they have. i have seem many 16th and 17 century
cookbook and they are written extremely flowery cursive that while
typical of that age are most certainly hard to read.

Grizzman