Friday, October 13, 2017

Primary Resources for MEAD

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Columella, L. Junius Moderatus. De re rustica, about 60 CE.
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/columella/columella.html (Latin only)
https://www.loebclassics.com/view/columella-agriculture/1941/pb_LCL408.175.xml (restr. access)
Columella, L. Junius Moderatus. L. Junius Moderatus Columella of Husbandry in Twelve books and his Book concerning Trees. Book XII, p 517. London, UK: A. Millar (transl.), 1745.
https://books.google.com/books/about/L_Junius_Moderatus_Columella_Of_Husbandr.html?id=qcNbAAAAMAAJ
1. Of the way to make mead.
2. How to make the best Honey-wine.

Rackham H., Jones W.H.S., Eichholtz D.E. (trans.). Pliny’s Natural History, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press & London: William Heinemann, 1949-54.
https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L370.pdf
Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder; Book 14, section 20:
http://www.masseiana.org/pliny.htm#BOOK%20XIV
3. A wine is also made of only water and honey.

Aqrabadhin (formulary) of al-Kindi by Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, c. 800-870 CE. Levey, Martin. The Medical Formulary, or Aqrabadhin, of Al-Kindi, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1966. 
http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/arabmead.html
http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/elixirs.html
4. An Arab Mead

Nasrallah, Nawal. Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, The Finnish Oriental Society, 60 Helsinki, 1987. The Netherlands, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2007
5. Fuqqā’ al-‘asal (alcohol-free honey beer, or short mead):
6. Another honey beer:
7. Another [honey] beer recipe:
8. A recipe for making khamr (intoxicating wine) from raisins 
9. A recipe for plain honey wine (sharāb mu’assal sādhaj):
10. A recipe for raisin wine (nabīdh zabībī):
11. A recipe for mead (nabīdh ‘asalī) without raisins:

Owen, Reverend T. (trans.) Geoponika; Agricultural Pursuits, Volume I. Of the Queen’s College at the University of Oxford. London: W. Spilsbury, 1805.
https://books.google.com/books?id=0KZbAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks
12. Concerning Oenomeli.
13. Oenomeli from must.
14. Preparation of hydromel.
15. Another preparation of Hydromel.
16. Rhodomelites.

de Maricourt, Petrus Peregrinus. Tractatus de Magnetate et Operationibus eiu, Folio 20r.  Reynolds Historical Library, University of Alabama (13-14th CE).
https://www.uab.edu/reynolds/collect/manuscripts/tractatus/folios/49-tract20
http://contentdm.mhsl.uab.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PHARM/id/889
17. For to make mead.
18. And if you would make metheglin.


Ein Buch von Guter Speise, ca. 1350. Stuttgard: gedruckt auf Kosten des literarischen Verein, 1844.Hajek, Hans. Das buoch von guoter spise. Aus der Würzburg-Münchener Handschrift. Berlin 1958.
http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/bvgs.htm
19. How you want to make good mead

Greco, Gina L. & Rose, Chrisine M. (ed.) The Good Wife’s Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris, 1393). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100274850
20. Bochet.
21. Item, another bochet which keeps for 4 years,  (Le Ménagier de Paris – 1393)

MS. 14th CE; Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright. 1857
https://books.google.com/books?id=niRTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Dictionary+of+Obsolete+and+Provincial+English,+Thomas+Wright&source=gbs_navlinks_s
22. To make Braggot.

Hieatt, Constance B. & Butler, Sharon (ed). Curye on Inglysch, English culinary manuscripts of the 14th century (including the Forme of Cury). Early English Text Society. London: Oxford University Press, 1985.
23. [...]
24. To make braggot.
25. To make mead.
26. To make fine mead & poignant.

Lodge, Barton & Herrtage, Sidney (ed.). On Husbondrie. From the Unique MS of about 1420 AD in Colchester Castle, Early English Text Society. London: Cambridge, (N. Truber & Co., 1873 and 1879), 1992.
http://literature.proquest.com/
27. The hydromel

Arnold. The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold’s Chronicle, 1503. London: 1811. https://books.google.com/books?id=BfxBAAAAYAAJ&dq=customs+of+london+otherwise+called+arnold%27s+chronicle&source=gbs_navlinks_s
28. For Braket.

de Vreese, W.L., ed. Middelnederlandsche geneeskundige recepten en tractaten, zegeningen en tooverformules. [Medieval Dutch healing recipes and manuscripts, blessings and magical formulas.] Ghent: A. Siffer, 1894.
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_mid002midd01_01/
29. To make mead
30. To make mead
31. To make mead

Frencken, H.G.Th. T bouck van wondre, 1513. Roermond: Drukkerij H. Timmermans, 1934.
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/fren007tbou01_01/colofon.htm
32. To make must sweet.

Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus by Olaus Magnus, 1555.
Translated & republished as Olaus Magnus. A Description of the Northern Peoples 1555.
33. On the making of hydromel, honey wine, or mead
34. Instructions about the ingredients.
35. On brewing mead in the Polish or Lithuanian manner.
36. Further Instructions for making hydromel, mead or mules by the Gota method.

Cogan, Thomas. The Haven of Health, 1584. London: Anne Griffin, 1636
https://ia800500.us.archive.org/22/items/havenofhealthchi00coga/havenofhealthchi00coga.pdf
37. Of Metheglin.
38. There is also another kinde of drinke like to Metheglin,
39. To make Bragget.

Platt, Hugh. Jewell House of Art and Nature. London: Peter Short, 1594.
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/
40. The making of a Bragget
41. A receipt for the making of an artificiall Malmesey.

Clutium, Theodorum. Van de Byen. Leyden: Jan Claesz van Dorp, Inde Vergulde Son, 1597.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0NnAAAAcAAJ&dq=van+de+byen&source=gbs_navlinks_s
42. To make mead.
43. And another.
44. To make wine-like honey-water.

Butler, Charles. The Feminine Monarchie. 1609. Oxford: 1623.
https://books.google.com/books?id=f5tbAAAAMAAJ&dq=the+feminine+monarchie+butler&source=gbs_navlinks_s
45. […] If the liquor be not strong enough 
46. The learned Physitian Mathais de Lobel  
47. One excellent receipte I will heere set downe

-- Koge Bog: Indeholdendis et hundrede fornødene stycker etc. Kiøbenhaffn (Copenhagen): Aff Salomone Sartorio, 1616.
Henry Notaker's Old Cookbooks and Food History First printed Nordic cookbook
http://www.notaker.com/onlitxts/kogebog.htm
http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/cooking/1616.html
48. White mead to make that will be used soon
49. Another way of Gualthere Reyff.

Venner, Tobias. Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, or, A plain Philosophical Demonstration of the Nature, faculties and Effects of all such things. London: 1636.
https://archive.org/details/TobiasVennerViaRectaAdVitamLongamOrAPlainPhilosophical
50. Metheglin is a very strong drink,
51. Meath or Mead, is like to Metheglin,

Wirsung, Christoph. Medicyn Boeck. Translated by Carolum Dattum. Dordrecht: Michiel Colijn, opt Water, int Huysboeck aende Cooren marckt, 1628.
https://books.google.be/books?id=lu9jAAAAcAAJ&dq=medicyn-boeck&hl=nl&source=gbs_navlinks_s
52. Of Mead, a good/spicy drink.
53. If you wish it stronger and more forceful,  
54. Would you wish to make a good spiced mead,
55. In old times this kind of mead was made:
56: Another type:

Hess, Karen, ed. Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats. NY: Columbia University Press, 1996 reprint ed.
57. To make mead.
58. To make mead.

2 comments:

  1. Your dictionary of obscure english citation is just quoting from the haven of health, which you also have: https://archive.org/stream/havenofhealthchi00coga#page/266/mode/2up

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    1. That is not surprising, and quite possible, the haven of health is quoting it from somewhere else as well... I found in my soap research a number of recipes from the Alexis, were found in a Profitable Book, which in turn had pilfered the Dutch t' bouck va wondre. I have one musk soap recipe which has shown in five different manuals by now. Medieval copyright, not so much.

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