The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward, lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. Illustrated with notes, and a copious index, or glossary. A manuscript of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined.
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- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward, lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. Illustrated with notes, and a copious index, or glossary. A manuscript of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![Cooks exprefsly tell us, in their proem, that their work was compiled ‘ by affent and avyfement of ‘ maifters of phifik and of philofophie that dwellid i in his [the King’s] court’ where phifik is ufed in the fenfe of medecine, phyjicus being applied to perfons profefling the Art of Healing long before the 14th century u, as fuch knowledge and /kill in all kinds of natural fubltances, conflituting the materiel medica, as was neceffary for them in pra&ice. At the end of the Editor’s MS. is written this rhyme, Explicit coquina que efl: optima medicina x. There is much relative to eatables in the Schold Salernitana ; and we find it ordered, that a phyfician fhould over-fee the young prince’s wet-nurfe at every meal, to infpeff her meat and drink But after all the avyfement of phyficians and phi- lofophers, our proceffes do not appear by any means' to be well calculated for the benefit of recipients, but rather inimical to them. Many of them are fcT highly feafoned, are fuch flrange and heterogeneous u Reginald us Phi-ficus. M. Paris, p. 410. 412. 573. 764. Et in Vit. p. 94. 103. Chaucer’s Medicus is a doctor of phifick, p. 4.- V. Junii Etym. voce Phyfician. For later times, v. J. Rofius, p. 93. * That of Donatus is more model! * Culina medicina: famulatrix ‘eft.’ y Lei. Colled!. IV. p. 283. ‘ Diod. Siculus refert primos iEgypti Reges victum quotidianum onmino fumplifle ex mcdicorum prx- feripto.’ Lifter ad Apic. p. ix. I compo-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21529401_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
