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Add MS 5016
- Record Id:
- 032-002110532
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002110532
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000040.0x00010a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172078130.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5016
- Title:
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Forme of Cury
- Scope & Content:
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Forme of Cury, a treatise on cookery by the chief cook of Richard II’s household, composed c.1390. Opens with an introductory paragraph:
‘[Thys?] forme of cury was compiled of the chef Maister Cokes of kyng Richard the Se[cu]nde kyng of [En]glond aftir the Conquest. the which was acounted þe best and ryallest vyand[ier] of alle cristen [k]ynges. And it was compiled by assent and auysement of Maisters and phisik and of philosophie þat dwellid in his court. First it techiþ a man for to make commune potages and commune mettis for howshold as þey shold be made craftly and holsomly. Aftirwa[rd] it techiþ for to make curious potages & meetes and sotiltees for alle manere of states both h[y]e and lowe. And the techyng of the fourme of making of potages & of meetes bo[the] of flessh and of fissh. buth ysette here by noumbre and by ordre. so þis little table [he]re sewyng wole teche a man with oute taryyng: to fynde what meete þat hym lust for to haue.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002110532", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 5016: Forme of Cury" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002110532
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002110532
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100172078130.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1420
- End Date:
- 1429
- Date Range:
- 1420s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 5830 × 275 mm.
Foliation: 8 membranes.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edward Stafford, 3rd Baron Stafford (b. 1535, d. 1603): presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1586, according to his note on the verso of membrane 4: ‘Antiquum hoc monumentum oblatum et missum est majestati vestræ vicesimo septimo die mensis Julij, anno regno vestri fælicissimi vicesimo viij ab humilimo vestro subdito, vestræque majestati fidelissimo. Edward Stafford. Hæres domus subversæ Buckinghamiensis.’
Elizabeth I (b. 1533, d. 1603), queen of England and Ireland.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Borrowed by Thomas Hearne in 1727 (correspondence in Harley MS 7524, ff. 305r, 313r, 317r), whose transcript is now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 194.
James West (1703–1772), politician and antiquary.
Gustavus Brander (b. 1719/20, d. 1787), merchant and antiquary: acquired from West on his death (Pegge 1780, p. xi). Presented the manuscript to the British Museum on 10 May 1782.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Samuel Pegge, The Forme of Cury, a roll of ancient English Cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II (London: Nichols, 1780).
Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century (Including the Forme of Cury), ed. by Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler, Early English Text Society, SS.8 (London: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Constance B. Hieatt, ‘Further notes on the Forme of Cury et al.: additions and corrections’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 70 (1988), pp. 45–52, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:1m2118.
- Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)