We are establishing a searchable Online Culinary History Network. We intend to eventually merge this list with the information found at our new website, culinaryhistory.org.

The purpose of this list has been to keep track of who is doing which cookbook.  Our new site will fulfill this function and also serve as a "to do list" of historical culinary titles in need of transcription and/or translation.  Our site is intended to aid scholars who may be searching for resources or translation assistance, or deciding on their next project. Our project is also intended to help avoid duplication of effort. Please email if you are working on an historical cookbook  project and wish it to be listed.  Please include sufficient bibliographical information to identify the specific edition.

To see a list of cookbooks already online, please click here. This list will also soon be incorporated into our new website.
 

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• This is the boke of cokery. R. Pynson, 1500. - C. Hieatt  (?)
• The Pepys Manuscript, MS Pepys 1047 - Facsimile, transcription & translation by James Matterer
• "Liber Cure Cocorum" -- completed English translation of 1862 edition; am working on a new transcription from Sloane MS. 1986-- Cindy Renfrow
• A noble boke of festes ryalle and Cokery, 1500 --transcription -- James Matterer
• Stere htt Well, the Pepys Manuscript - I'm doing redactions when possible, and am doing both a literal translation into modern script and a modern version of the text.  --  James Matterer
• Two 15th c. Cookery Books  in a searchable transcription - not proofread --Daniel Myers
• "Forme of Cury."  -- tranlation and adaptation of recipes --Jennifer Edwards-Ring, jener@macomb.com

• "Agnus Castus" manuscript numbered Royal Library 90, Stockholm. The manuscript pages are a treatise on herbs and their virtues and are thought to be the source pages for most of the early printed English herbals. The manuscript is dated tentatively at 1425. -- Gaylin Walli

French

• Le Menagier de Paris, c. 1393, French. -- transcription of recipes -- See transcription to date -- Donna Green-Tye.

• Anonimo trecentesco della corte Angioina" or Anonymous Treatise of the courts of Angioina.   14th century Neapolitan cookbook - Contact Joseph Cook @ joeguppy@hotmail.com for information.
• The Libro Novo that I used was the 1557 edition printed in Venice by Cristoforo Messisbugo which contains 123 leaves. The original book was called the Banchetti and was published in Ferrara in 1549, a year after the death of Messisbugo.  The book is divided into three sections: 1. A tribute to his patron Ippolito d'Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, with an inventory of food and equipment used to produce the feasts and the necessary officials and workers needed.  I hope to translate this in the future.

2. A description of 13 feasts from 1524 to 1548 that Cristoforo recorded with all the food served and the important people who attended.  I have translated one of these feasts and will do more soon. 3. The recipes themselves, 323 in number, in 12 chapters.  I have translated all of this section. I am working transcribing the Italian. -- Charles A. Potter.
• Costanzo Felici's 'Del'insalata e piante che in qualunque modo vengono per cibo del homo' (around 1570; ed. Arbizzoni 1986.  (Thomas Gloning)
• "Epulario, or, The Italian Banquet" (English translation published 1598) -- transcription --   Kirrily Robert

German

• "Ein neu Kochbuch" by Marx Rumpolt. I am working in collaboration with Gwen Grasse (Denver, CO) on translating this 1581 German cookery book." Work completed to date can be found here -- Tom Bilodeau-- I am also collaborating on other texts that can be found here.

Catalan/Spanish

Catalunya MS 2112 "De apereylar be de menyar" -- A complete transcription   --Tom McDonald

"Libro de guisados, manjares y potajes  intitulado libro de cozina", Ruperto de Nola,  Logrono, Spain, 1529, The translation  is now webbed in the Florilegium.  I am hoping to get the original Spanish transcribed and webbed.  -- Robin Carroll-Mann

"Libre de Sent Soví" -- A transcription, translation and redaction  incorporating all (3) extant manuscripts (University Library of Barcelona MS 68, University Library of Valencia MS 216, and Library of Catalunya MS 2112), for print publication. The book is about 80% complete and I'm shooting for  publication in the 2004-2005 timeframe.   --Tom McDonald

"Libret de Menyar Catalan", from the Barcelona MS 68, a printed booklet of about 25 recipes from to be released this summer or fall.   --Tom McDonald

"Libre de Totes Maneres de Confits", a 14th century treatise on candymaking.  Translation from Catalan . Currently I have completed a draft translation of "Llibre de Totes Maneres  de Confits".  I plan to  transcribe the Catalan text directly from the manuscript. This project is on  hold currently, until I can find someone to proof the manuscript and the transcription.  The final work will contain an introduction, the  transcription and translation printed on facing pages, full bibliography and  notes, and a section of worked up recipes. --Vincent Cuenca

• Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria. Códice Português I.E.33. da Biblioteca Nacional de Nápoles. - English translation -- Fernanda Gomes

Japanese
 

• I am currently working on a minor monograph about food and cookery of the late Muromachi to Genroku periods in Japan. It will include a complete translation of Ryorimonogatari as well as material drawn from other late sources. -- Solveig Throndardottir

 
• 1648 Japanese Cookbook, Ryori Monogotari.  --English translation, adapting and testing the recipes.  -- Elaine Koogler, Channon Mondoux, Joshua Badgley.

• Wang, T & Anderson, E. N. (1999) Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and Eating, featured in "Petit Propos Culinare" 60, and Buell, P. D. & Anderson, E. N. (2000) A Soup for the Qan. New York. Columbia University Press.  Note: This features the primary source, Yin-shan cheng-yao and it's translation thereof.  -- "We are not translating but are adapting and analyzing the results. Any remotely edible recipes will be posted to a website with the cited original translation and our adaptation and a digital camera shot." -- Craig Jones

• KA Gent 15 - contains 450 recipes. -- Christianne Muusers
• Magirus, M. Antonius [1663] Koock-boeck ofte  Familieren Keuken-Boeck. Leerende hoe datmen alderhande Vleesch Voghelen  Wilt-braedt ende Visch koken sal: [etc.] Ghedruckt naer de Lovensche Copije ende  op veel plaetsen verbetert. Ghemaect Door M. Anthonius Magirus. t' Antwerpen. By  Godtgaf Verhulst in de Cammerstraet inden Witten hasewint. 1663. In octavo,  zetsp. 112 x 69 mm., [120] genummerde pagina's, ([1-4] - 120). Antwerpen:  Stadsbibliotheek, H 83740. -- "We're currently  comparing this last edition with the previous ones from 1612 and 1655. It seems  all editions are nearly identical. People can contact us if they want more  information." Hilde  Sels, Jozef  Schildermans, jozef@schildermans.com

 
• 1593 Dutch cookbook "Cocboeck" by Carolus Battus - English translation.   English translation, currently being translated.  If you would like more information, please

contact Jennifer Strobel at JennS at cmu dot edu.
• EEn notabel boecxken van cokeryen het welc bewijst alle spise te bereiden elc na sinen staet het si in bruylochten in feesten bancketten oft ander maeltyden besondere en het es eenen ieghelijcken van grooten noode te hebben die sijn dinghen ter eeren doen wilt. Gheprint inde pryncelijcke stadt van Bruesel inden Zeeridder Bi mi Thomaes vander Noot. [ca. 1514] -- transcription and translation into English completed, being proofread -- Christina J. van Tets

• Keukenboek (UB Gent Hs. 1035, 15th century), C.A. Serrure (ed.), Keukenboek uitgegeven naar een Handschrift der vijftiende eeuw. Gent 1872.  -- English Translation, Karen S. Boomgaarden.   Transcription in Dutch is online at http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/serrure.htm.

• Book on turkey -- Andrew  Smith.

Links to Medieval & Renaissance cookbooks online.

This page was last updated June 18, 2007.

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