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London: A 14th-century recipe book compiled by King Richard II's master
cooks is among several works being digitised for viewing on Internet.
The book is being put online for the first time to give modern-day chefs an
insight into the delicacies of the Middle Ages.
Forme of Cury, written in1390, details more than 200 dishes that were cooked in
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Written in Middle English, it contains the instructions for creating
long-forgotten dishes such as blank mang (a sweet dish of meat, milk, sugar and
almonds), mortrews (ground and spiced pork).
It is one of 40 literary treasures being made freely available on the internet
for the first time by the University of Manchester's John Rylands University
Library.
Other Middle English manuscripts to be digitised and put online include one of
the earliest existing editions of the complete Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, John
Lydgate's two major poems Troy Book and Fall of Princes, and 500-year-old
translations of the Bible into English.
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The work, which will be conducted using a state-of-the-art high-definition
camera, will begin next month and is due to be completed by late 2009.
Jan Wilkinson, the director of the John Rylands library, described the library's
manuscripts as “a research resource of immense significance”.
“Yet the manuscripts are inherently fragile, and until now access to them has
been restricted by the lack of digital copies. Digitisation will make them
available to everyone,” the Telegraph quoted her, as saying.
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“For the first time it will be possible to compare our manuscripts directly with
other versions of the texts in libraries located across the world, opening up
opportunities for new areas of research. We hope that this will be the beginning of
a wider digitisation programme, which will unlock the tremendous potential of our
medieval manuscripts and printed books for the benefit of the academic community
and the wider public,” she added.
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