Medicinal and Culinary Miscellany

Miscellany of medical recipes, culinary recipes, and other ephemera, mostly in Italian (Bolognese dialect), some in Latin. Incomplete composite manuscript, compiled for personal use. Variety of scribal hands. One dated folio (32v): "3 Dbre 1614 in bolog(n)oa." Some lively pen trials and doodles (50-51).

In Collection:

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Subject

• Formulas, recipes, etc.--Manuscripts
• Manuscripts

Language

• ita
• lat

Identifier

• Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.It.1

Date created

• 1300s to 1600s

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 33 leaves; 30 x 22 cm.

Alternative title

• Fifteenth-century leaf from a medicinal and culinary miscellany (fol. 38)

Additional physical characteristics

• Folio with old 17th-century foliation 31-62, modern foliation in pencil, on paper with the exception of one leaf of reused medieval parchment (36). Paper quality and size inconsistent, some watermarks visible. Bound in plain modern boards. A few leaves stained and fraying near the end.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Provenance

• Purchased by Bruce and Dorothy Brown from Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, July 1992.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• miscellanies
• manuscripts (documents)

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1992-044-2

Fonds title

• Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection

Fonds identifier

• SC017

Is referenced by

• Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf
• Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.

Date digitized

• February 23, 2012

Transcript

• Catalogue and preliminary identification of watermarks by Natasha O'Reilly, with the assistance of Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Boyarin, December 2016, available here: http://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/medieval/ms-brown-it-1_watermarks.pdf
• Transcription and description by Sonya Chwyl, with assistance from Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), as part of coursework for her manuscript studies class, December 2015, available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-brown-it-1_transcription_fol36.pdf
• Transcription by Renée Gaudet, with assistance from Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin and Dr. Joseph Grossi (ENGL), as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Williams Boyarin, December 2015, available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-brown-it-1_transcription_fol34r-v_39r-39Av.pdf

Technical note

• Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/j832-8296

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