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This eBay auction is ending in a few hours. An uncommon title in good condition. Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books, Edited by Thomas Austin. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....tem=7037283238 Present bid: US$62.00 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. ***************************************** Thank you. Peter Krantz International Bookfinders Sydney |
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