English Cuisine

Bound together in this volume are the Tractatus de Magnetate et Operationi bus eius (the 13th century letter on the magnet by Petrus Peregrinus ); a university handbook on the theory of numbers, proportion s and harmony; the seven signs of bad breeding; the seven signs of elegance; and household and medical recipes. Included is one of the oldest known surviving English mead recipes. The recipes from this manuscript have been transcribe d and can be viewed at this site.