The Worshipful Company of Æthelmearc Cooks and Bakers

Research Links

Glossaries of Period Cooking Terms
Online Collections of Primary Sources on Cooking
Individual Online Primary Sources

Glossaries of Period Cooking Terms:
Cindy Renfrow's Glossary of Medieval & Renaissance Culinary Terms: http://www.thousandeggs.com/glossary.html

A Boke of Gode Cookery Glossary of Medieval Cooking Terms http://www.godecookery.com/glossary/glossary.htm

 

Online Collections of Primary Sources on Cooking:

Culinary & Dietetic Texts of the Middle Ages (Prof. Thomas Gloning's site - mostly in German)
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/kobu.htm

Bringham Young University's primary medieval manuscripts
(including Charlemagne's gardens and the Hours of the Duke of Berry)
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/medren.html

Professor Martha Carlin's texts
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/#MEDIEVAL%20AND%20EARLY%20MODERN%20CULINARY%20TEXTS

Cindy Renfrow's online links
http://www.thousandeggs.com/cookbooks.html

Project Gutenberg Official Home Site
http://promo.net/pg/

 

Individual Online Primary Sources

A Boke of Cookrye (1591)
http://jducoeur.org/Cookbook/Cookrye.html

A Proper Newe Boke of Cokerye (1545)
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/bookecok.htm

A Propre new booke of Cokery (1545) & A noble boke of festes ryalle and Cokery (1500)
http://www.godecookery.com/trscript/trscript.html

An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian_contents.htm

Anthimus' De Observatione Ciborum (6th C., in Latin)
http://www.accademia.home.it/bibvirt/anthimi.html

An Early Romanian Cookbook (1600s)
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/For_Translation/O_Lume/O_Lume_Intr_O_Carte_de_Bucate

Assizes of Bread (1350)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/breadbeer.html

The Closet of Sir Kenelme Digbie, Opened (1671 edition, partial contents)
http://realbeer.com/spencer/digby.html

Delightes for Ladies, Hugh Plat (1609)
http://infotrope.net/sca/texts/delights-for-ladies/

Du Fait de Cuisine, Chiquart (1420)
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/du_fait_de_c_contents.html

Ein Buch von Guter Spise (1345)
http://cs-people.bu.edu/akatlas/Buch/buch.html

Ein New Kochbuch, Marx Rumpolt (1581)
http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_Rumpolt1.htm

The English Housewife, Gervase Markham (1649)
http://infotrope.net/sca/texts/english-housewife/

Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania Library)
Household Words: Women Write from and for The Kitchen Devoted to
"cookery manuscripts and published books of recipes, etiquette and household advice." (15th-19th C.)
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/aresty/aresty1.html

Het eerste gedrukte Nederlandsche kookboek, Thomas vander Noot (1510)
http://users.pandora.be/willy.vancammeren/NBC/index.htm

Forme of Curye (1390)
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/

Gentyll manly Cokere, Samuel Pepys (15th Century)
http://godecookery.com/pepys/pepys.htm

The Gentlewomans Companion (1673)
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl?act=contents&f=%2Fdata%2Fwomen_writers%2Fdata%2Fgc_complete.sgm

The Good Huswifes Jewell, Thomas Dawson (1596)
http://infotrope.net/sca/texts/good-huswifes-jewell/

Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin (Sabina Welser's Cookbook) 1553 - Valoise Armstrong's translation
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html

Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin - Thomas Gloning's transcription
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/sawe.htm

Le Menagier de Paris (1390?)
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html

Le Viandier (in French, 1390?)
http://www.ifrance.fr/B-simon/cel2.htm

Le Viandier
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/vi-vat.htm

Liber Cure Cocorum (1430?)
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lcc/

Liber Cure Cocorum
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/lcc3.htm

Libre del Coch, Ruperto de Nola, 1529
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Guisados1-art.html
and
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Guisados2-art.html

Libro di cucina- libro per cuoco (Anonimo veneziano) 14th C.
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html

Nova Reperta, Johannes Stradanus (early 1580s)
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/ed/novarepall.htm

Of Cookery, John Baptista
http://members.tscnet.com/pages/omard1/jportac14.html

Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (Reginum of Health)
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/regimen/index.htm

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum
http://www.godecookery.com/regimen/regimen.htm

Two Fifteenth Century Cookbooks
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/c/cme/cme-idx?type=HTML&rgn=TEI.2&byte=3356093

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books
http://www.bookofrefreshments.com/cgi-bin/tfccb.pl