Historic Cook Books

Summary of finds -

5th century (from 401 to 500)

late 4th / early 5th century : Ancient Rome : De re coquinaria / APICIUS

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Apicius/home.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16439 (English Text)

http://www.archive.org/details/apicicaelidereco00apicrich

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/apicius.html (Latin Text)

http://www.fhaugsburg.de/%7Eharsch/Chronologia/Lspost04/Apicius/api_int (Latin Text)

5th c : Ancient Rome : The Excerpts of Vinidarius

http://www.silk.net/sirene/laterome.htm

6th century (from 501 to 600 AD)

7th century (from 601 to 700 AD )

8th century ( from 701 to 800 AD )

9th century (from 801 to 900 AD)

10th Century (from 901 to 1000 AD)

10th – 13th C: Persia : Kitab al-tabikh (Baghdad Cookery Book)

Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes) (10th century) by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/For_Translation/al_Warraq/al_warraq.html

Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes) (1226) by Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi

11th Century (from 1001 to 1100 AD)

12th Century (from 1101 to 1200 AD)

13th Century (from 1201 to 1300 AD)

13th C: England : Two Anglo-Norman Culinary Collections Edited from British Library

Manuscripts Additional 32085 and Royal 12.C.xii

13th C: possibly French / Danish : Libellus de art Coquinaria ("Harpestreng" cookbook)

http://base.kb.dk/manus_pub/cv/manus/ManusPage.xsql?nnoc=manus_pub&p_ManusId=87&p_PageNo=140%20recto&p_Lang=main&p_Mode=img (Danish Text of Codex K)

http://www.notaker.com/onlitxts/molbech.htm (Danish Text of Codex Q)

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/harp-kkr.htm (Danish Text of Codex K )

13th C: Andalusia : An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook (Andalusian Cookbook)

The original source can be found at David Friedman's website

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/For_Translation/al_Tughibi/al_Tugibi.html

http://www.harvestfields.ca/harvest/cookbooks/Andalusian/Cookbook.htm (English Text)

13th C: France : Le Régime du corps

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/aldosien.htm (French Text)

14th Century (from 1301 to 1400 AD)

1300 : France : Enseignements … maniere de viands

http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/lessons.shtm

http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/1300ens.htm

14th C early : Italian ? : Tractatus de modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/%7Egloning/mul1-tra.htm

1345 : Germany : Ein Buch von guter spise

http://turbadelirantium.skyrocket.de/bibliotheca/anonymus_buochvonguot (German Text)

http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/bvgs.htm (German Text)

http://www.die-dunkle-dimension.de/p-med03.htm (German Links to individual recipes)

http://cs-people.bu.edu/akatlas/Buch/recipes.html (German English Text)

1375 : France : Le Viandier de Taillevent

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62367s (French Text)

http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/vi-vat.htm (French Text)

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/prescotj/data/viandier/viandier1.html (English Text)

1390 : England : Forme of Cury

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/ (English Text)

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/8cury11.txt (English Text)

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8cury10.txt (English Text)

1393 : France : Le Menagier de Paris

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k831118 (French Text)

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/menagier/ (French Text)

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier_Contents.html

(English Text)

14th C: Italian ? : Liber de coquina

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/%7Egloning/mul2-lib.htm (Latin Text)

15th Century (from 1401 to 1500 AD)

1400 : German : Ein alemannisches Büchlein von guter Speise (Cgm 384, fol. 103b-115b)

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/birlalem.htm (German Text)

1400 : German : Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/mndk.htm (German Text)

1400 : German : Ein Kochbuch aus dem Archiv des Deutschen Ordens

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/gollub.htm (German Text)

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOODMANUSCRIPTS/Konigsberg-art.html (English Text)

1400 : Spain / Catalon : Libre de totes maneres de confits

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/confits.htm (Catalan Text)

1420 : France : Du fait de cuisine

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait (English Text)

1430 : England : Liber cure cocorum

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lcc/facsimile.html (English Text)

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lcc/parallel.html (English Text)

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/thomas.gloning/tx/lcc3.htm (English Text)

1430 : England : Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books - Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016,

with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1439, Laud MS.553, & Douce MS. 55

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=cme;idno=CookBk;rgn=div1;view=text;cc=cme;node=CookBk%3A6 (English Text)

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=cme;cc=cme;rgn=main;view=text;idno=CookBk (English Text)

1450 : England : Two Fifteenth-Century MS - (HARLEIAN MS. 279 & 4016)

http://www.bookofrefreshments.com/cgi-bin/tfccb.pl (English Text)

1450-60 : England : Italy : Libro de arte coquinaria

http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/martino2.htm (Italian Text)

1460 : The Babees Book .. Boke of Nurture

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=cme;idno=AHA6127.0001.001 (English Text)

http://jrider.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2001f/fren234/01/bookofnurture.htm (English Text)

1468 : England : A Noble Boke off Cookry

www.medievalcookery.com/notes/napier.txt (English Text)

14th/15th C: Italy : Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/frati.htm (Italian Text)

http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html (English Text)

14th/15th C: Italy : Italian Renaissance Recipes, from several sources

http://www.nicomarin.com/ricette.htm (English Text)

14th/15th C: Italy : Anonimo Veneziano (Anonymous Venetian Cookbook)

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/%7Egloning/frati.htm (Italian Text)

http://www.geocities.com/anahita_whitehorse/LibroDellaCocina.html (English Text)

15th C : Germany :Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/feyl.htm (Greman Text)

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOODMANUSCRIPTS/Eberhard-art.html (English Text)

15th C : Netherlands : Wel ende edelike spijse - Keukenboek (UB Gent Hs. 1035);

Wel ende edelike spijse (Good and Noble Food)

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/serrure.htm (Dutch Text)

http://www.coquinaria.nl/kooktekst/Introduction.htm (English Text)

15th c : Portugal: A Treatise of Portuguese Cuisine

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/05810518790525195209079/index.htm (Portuguese Text)

15th c : England : Thomas Awkbarow's Recipes - A concordance to the Middle English culinary recipes in MS Harley 5401, A 15th-century manuscript

http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/harlkonk.htm (English Text)

late 15th c: England : Pepys MS1047

http://www.godecookery.com/pepys/pepys.htm (English Text)

late 15th / early 16th c: Germany : Inntalkochbuch

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/kb-dann.htm (German text)

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Inntalart.html (English Text)

http://www.housemorien.org/inntalkochbuch.htm (English Text)

16th Century (from 1501 to 1600 AD)

1510-1514? : Netherlands : Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen

http://users.pandora.be/willy.vancammeren/NBC/index.htm (English Text)

http://www.kookhistorie.com/ (English Text)

1513 : England : Boke of Kervynge

http://www.harvestfields.ca/CookBooks/001/02/01.htm (English Text)

http://milkmama.tripod.com/kervynge2.html (English Text)

1520 : Spain : Libre de doctrina per a ben servir, de tallar y del art de coch

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/57915397105571162900080/index.htm (Spanish Text)

1529 circa : Spain / Catalonia : Libre del Coch

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOODMANUSCRIPTS/Guisados1-art.text (part 1 English text)

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOODMANUSCRIPTS/Guisados2-art.html (part 2 English text)

1530 : Italy : De honesta voluptate

http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=X533841967&idioma=0 (Latin Text)

1545 : England : A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye

http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/bookecok.htm (English Text)

http://www.godecookery.com/trscript/trscript.html (English Text)

1553 : Augsburg Bavaria : Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin (Cookbook of Sabina Welserin)

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/thomas.gloning/tx/sawe.htm (German Text)

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html (English Text)

1555 : Italy : The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ ( Latin & French Text)

1570: Italy : Opera

http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro_b.asp?ref (Italian Text)

1573 : Germany : Ein New Kochbuch

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/rumpochs.htm (German Text)

http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Egrasse/GK_Rumpolt1.htm (English Text)

http://www.ravenstreet.org/Tirloch/ein%20neu%20kuchbuch%20-%20transcribed%20pages......pdf (German Text)

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/For_Translation/Max_Rumpolt/Max_Rumpolt.html (German Text)

1591: England : A Boke of Cookrye

http://jducoeur.org/Cookbook/Cookrye.html (English Text)

1593 : Netherlands : Eenen seer schoonen, ende excellenten Cocboeck (Exquisite and

Excellent Cookbook)

http://www.kookhistorie.com/ (Dutch Text with English intro)

1594, 1596,1597 : England : Good Huswife's Handmaide for the Kitchin

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/thomas.gloning/ghhk/ (English Text both 1594 and 1597 versions)

http://www.harvestfields.ca/CookBooks/003/07/00.htm (English Text 1596 version)

1596 : England :The Good Housewife's Jewell

http://www.harvestfields.ca/CookBooks/003/07/00.htm (English Text)

1597 : England : Herbal: Generall Historie of Plantes.

http://members.aol.com/renfrowcm/gerardp1.html (English Text)

1598 : Germany : De vierdte thiel

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/1598aw4w.htm (German Text)

16th C : Spain : Manual de mujeres …

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/01371074 (Spanish Text)

http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/manual.htm (English Text)

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