Thursday, August 18, 2016

Free Resources for Mediaeval Brewers

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby, 1669.
Free download at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16441


The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet by Hannah Woolley
Free download at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14377


the English Husbandman by Gervase Markham, 1613. An interesting manuscript with info on growing & harvesting hops, grapes and making cyder & perry.
Free download at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22973


The Egnlish Hus-wife: containg [sic] the inward and outward vertues which ought to be a compleat woman : as her skill in physick, chirurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wides, conceited secrets, distillatians, perfumes, ordering the wool, hemp, flax, making cloth and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oats, their excellent uses in families, of brewing, baking and all other things belonging to an houshold : a work generally approved and now the eighth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men and the general good of this nation by Gervase Markham (1568-1637), London 1675

The online catalog at UPenn (it's the first listed):
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=title&index=15703&key=english+house+wife+containing+the+inward+and+outward+vertues+which+ought+to+be+in+a+compleat+woman&c=c
The direct link to the file:
http://mdc.cbuc.cat/cdm/singleitem/collection/fonsgrewe/id/37


A Way to get Wealth, CONTAINING Six Principal! Vocations, or Callings, in which every good Husband or House- wise may lawfully imploy themselves. Includes 3. The Office of a House-wife, in Physick, Chirurgery, Extractions of Oyles, Banquets, Cookery, Ordering of Feasts, Preserving of Wine, conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, Ordering of Wooll, Hemp, Flax, Dying, Use of Dayries, Maulting, Brewing, Baking; and the Profit of Oats. by Gervase Markham, 1668

Free download at:
https://books.google.com/books?id=A_ZEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12&dq=a+way+to+get+wealth&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB1pT748PMAhXMfhoKHSAqB2QQ6AEIMDAA#v=onepage&q=a%20way%20to%20get%20wealth&f=false


A Nievve Herball, Or Historie of Plantes: Wherein is Contayned the Whole Discourse and Perfect Description of All Sortes of Herbes and Plantes : Their Divers & Sundry Kindes ... and that Not Onely of Those Whiche are Here Growyng in this Our Countrie of Englande, But of All Others Also of Forrayne Realmes Commonly Used in Physicke
; First Set Foorth in the Doutche Or Almaigne Tongue, by Garrat D'Ewes (Gerard Dewes), dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578 (779 pages) - has a great chapter on hops.

Free download at:
https://books.google.com/books?id=nrspQgAACAAJ&dq=A_Nievve_Herball_Or_Historie_of_Plantes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ4KO978vOAhVLVWMKHVKMD7gQ6AEILDAC


A Booke of Secrets, London; Adam Islip, 1596. Has recipes for inks and paints; also a small treatise on "the ordering of wines". Page 22-37 are about making Wine "Certain Instructions for ordering of Wines: Shewing how to make Wine, that it may continue good and faint not, Neither become sour, nor [...] colour. And how you may remedie faint Wine, take away the hoariness, with other instructions for preparations of the same."

Free download at:
http://www.shipbrook.net/jeff/bookshelf/details.html?bookid=3


T Boucke va Wondre, a 1513 book with brewing recipes (and lots of ways to dye stuff). In medieval Dutch as part of a thesis of 1934 in modern Dutch (includes the chemistry behind the dyeing recipes and explanations of ingredients).

Free download at:
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/fren007tbou01_01/fren007tbou01_01_0006.php


The Customs of London: Otherwise Called Arnold's Chronicle, 1503
By Richard Arnold, Francis Douce, London 1811

Free download at:
https://books.google.com/books?id=BfxBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5&dq=r.+arnold+the+customs+of+london+1811&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3sqWx-8vOAhVG3mMKHW0-Am44ChDoAQgbMAA#v=onepage&q=r.%20arnold%20the%20customs%20of%20london%201811&f=false


Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577 by William Harrison (1534-1593):
Near the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, Reginald Wolfe, the Queen's Printer, with the splendid audacity characteristic of that age, planned to publish a "universal Cosmography of the whole world, and therewith also certain particular histories of every known nation." Raphael Holinshed had charge of the histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the only part of the work ever published; and these were issued in 1577, and have since been known as "Holinshed's Chronicles." From them Shakespeare drew most of the material for his historical plays.

Of particular interest is Chapter VI: Of The Food And Diet Of The English
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.asp#Chapter%20VI


The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597) John Gerarde, London
http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/gerarde/index.html (high resolution images)
Free download of the pdf (medium resolution images):
http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/gerarde/gerarde_herball.pdf


A Nievve Herball, Or Historie of Plantes : Wherin is Contayned the Vvhole Discourse and Perfect Description of All Sortes of Herbes and Plantes: Their Diuers [and] Sundry Kindes: Their Straunge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes: Their Names, Natures, Operations, and Vertues: and that Not Onely of Those Whiche are Here Growyng in this Our Countrie of Englande, But of All Others Also of Forrayne Realmes, Commonly Vsed in Physicke by Gerard Dewes, 1578 (779 pages), London.

Free download at:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ifxNAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A_Nievve_Herball_Or_Historie_of_Plantes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6je3O083OAhXDKCYKHQBJAwMQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=A_Nievve_Herball_Or_Historie_of_Plantes&f=false


For documentation on the recreation of period brews, please visit the Aethelmearc Brewers Guild at:
http://brewers.aethelmearc.org/resource.html 

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