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Das sog. Harpestreng-Kochbuch | Danish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 13th Century | Harpestreng cookbook | |||
Das sog. Harpestreng-Kochbuch | Danish | Transcription | Cookbook | 13th Century | Transcription of Codex Q | |||
Das sog. Harpestreng-Kochbuch | Danish | Transcription | Cookbook | 13th Century | Transcription of Codex K | |||
Kinderbüchlein | Bartholomäus Metlinger | Danish | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1473 | 1476 | |
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Danish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1481 | 1529 | |
Commentario de le piu notabili | Ortensio Landi | Danish | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1553 | Includes section on dietary recommendations | |
Libre del Coch (Part 2) | Rupert de Nola | Danish | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1529 | ||
Koge Bog | Danish | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1616 | |||
Koge-Bog | Danish | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1616 | |||
Koge-Bog | Danish | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1616 | |||
Koge-Bog | Danish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1616 | 1625 | ||
Koge-Bog | Danish | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1616 | |||
Vademecum of Walahfrid Strabo | Danish | Facsimile | Dietary | 9th Century | c. 825 - 849 | The Vademecum (personal handbook) of Walahfrid Strabo (ca. 808-849), Abbot of Reichenau. It is one of the few known autographs of a prominent figure to survive from the early Middle Ages. It contains diverse texts and images by numerous hands, written between ca. 825 and 849. It includes a copy of the letter written by Anthimus "De observatione ciborum" | ||
Wel ende edelike spijse | Dutch | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | UB Gent 1035, formerly known as Keukenboek | |||
Wel ende edelike spijse | Dutch | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | UB Gent Hs. 1035, formerly known as Keukenboek | |||
Nederlandsche kookboek | Dutch | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1510 | Facsimile, transcription & English translation | ||
Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen | Thomas VanderNoot | Dutch | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1514 | ||
Vorselmans’ Nyeuwen Coock Boeck | Dutch | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1560 | |||
Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck | Karel Baten | Dutch | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1593 | ||
Diaeteticon sive de re cibaria libri IV | Luis Núñez | Dutch | Facsimile | Dietary | 17th Century | 1627 | 1646 | |
Régi magyar szakácskönyvek | Béla Radvánszky | Eastern European | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1893 | Old Hungarian cookbooks | |
The Science of Cooking | Eastern European | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1620 | Hungarian cookbook by the Master Chef of the Prince of the Court of Transylvania | ||
Hans Dernschwams Bericht über Ernährungsgewohnheiten in der Türkey, Ungarn usw | Hans Dernschwam | Eastern European | Transcription | Dietary | 16th Century | 1553 | 1555 | Hans Dernschwam's report on 16th century food, foodways and cookery in Turkey, Hungary etc. |
Early English Meals and Manners | Frederick J. Furnivall | English | Compilation | John Russell's Boke of nurture -- Wynken de Worde's Boke of keruynge -- The Boke of curtasye -- R. Weste's Booke of demeanor -- Seager's Schoole of vertue -- The babees book -- Aristotle's A B C -- Urbanitatis -- Stans puer ad mensam -- The Lytylle childrenes lytil boke -- For to serve a lord -- Old Symon -- The birched school-boy &c. &c. | ||||
Mappae Clavicula | English | Facsimile | 12th Centutry | 1847 | Little Key of Drawing or Painting, it includes 3 recipes for candy on page 238 recipes 285-287. | |||
The Forme of Cury | English | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | 1780 | ||
The Forme of Cury | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | 1780 | ||
The Forme of Cury | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | 1780 | ||
The Forme of Cury | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | |||
The Forme of Cury | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | |||
The Forme of Cury | English | Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | A site that has redacted (updated) from the 1390 Medieval Manuscript The Forme of Cury | ||
The Forme of Cury | English | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | Compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II | ||
The Forme of Cury | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1390 | 1780 | Samuel Pegge edition | |
The Vision of Piers Plowman | William Langland | English | Transcription | 14th Century | about 1377 | 1869 | A Middle English allegorical narrative poem with many references to the everyday lives and foods of the times including Blancmange, Collops, Mortress, Peasecods, Wafers and Wastel Bread | |
Wagstaff Miscellany | English | Facsimile | Medical | 14th Century | c. 1450 | Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts. Beinecke MS 163 | ||
MS Harley 5401 | English | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | translation by Sam Wallace | |||
Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | Harleian MS. 279 (c. 1430), & Harleian. MS. 4016 (c. 1450), with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1439, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS. 55 | |||
Gentyll manly Cokere | English | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | Manuscript Pepys 1047 'Miscell. of Receipt's/M.S.S. Temp. R. Ed. 4', a late 15th century collection of recipes and remedies found in the library of Samuel Pepys | |||
Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | Harleian MS. 279 (c. 1430), & Harleian. MS. 4016 (c. 1450), with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1439, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS. 55 | |||
Liber Cure Cocorum | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1430 | |||
Liber Cure Cocorum | English | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1430 | |||
Liber Cure Cocorum | English | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1430 | |||
The Boke of Nurture | John Russell | English | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1460-1470 | 1904 | |
The Boke of Nurture | John Russell | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1460-1470 | 1867 | Edited from the Originals in the British Museum Library |
Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books | Thomas Austin | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1888 | ||
Liber Cure Cocorum | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | about 1430 | 1862 | A very curious cookery book in verse from the North West of Lancashire dated to around 1430. It was first printed as a transcript made by Richard Morris in 1862 from a text discovered in the Sloane Manuscript Collection. The poem includes the earliest references to several dishes, including haggis. | |
Two 15th Century Cookbooks | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | about 1440 | 1886 | Two manuscripts in the Harleian Collection, plus bits of food stuff from other ancient sources. | |
A Noble Boke Off Cookry Ffor A Prynce Houssolde | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1468 | 1882 | Holkham MSS. 674 | |
A Noble Boke Off Cookry Ffor A Prynce Houssolde | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1468 | 1882 | Holkham MSS. 674 | |
The Boke of Kervynge | Wynken de Worde | English | Transcription | 16th Century | 1508 | |||
The Boke of Kervynge | Wynkyn de Worde | English | Transcription | 16th Century | 1508 | 1867 | Edited from the Originals in the British Museum Library | |
The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes | Hieronymus Brunschwig | English | Facsimile | Pharmacology | 16th Century | 1527 | Translation of German manuscript by "Jherom Bruynswyke" into English | |
A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1545-1572 | 1913 | ||
The commonplace book of Countess Katherine Seymour Hertford | Katherine Seymour Hertford | English | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1567 | University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 823 | ||
The commonplace book of Countess Katherine Seymour Hertford | Transcription by Daniel Myers | English | Transcription | Dietary | 16th Century | 1567 | 2007 | The University of Pennsylvania catalog describes this manuscript as, "Commonplace book written in England, beginning with copies of selections from the Psalms; with a copy of the deathbed statement of Lady Katherine (presumably Lady Katherine Grey); and with a section of medicinal and culinary recipes at the end." |
The commonplace book of Countess Katherine Seymour Hertford | Katherine Seymour Hertford | English | Transcription | 16th Century | 1567 | University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 823 | ||
The Treasurie of commodious Conceits | John Partridge | English | Transcription | 16th Century | 1573 | 1653 | ||
The Treasury of Hidden Secrets | John Partridge | English | Transcription | 16th Century | 1573 | 1653 | Revised edition of "The Treasurie of Commodious Conceits" | |
A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1575 | |||
A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1575 | |||
The Boke of Nurture | Hugh Rhodes | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1577 | 1867 | Edited from the Originals in the British Museum Library |
A Book of Cookrye | A. W. | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1584 | 1591 | |
The good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin | English | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1594 | |||
A Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin | Thomas Dawson | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1594 | ||
The good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1594 | |||
The Good Huswifes Jewell | Thomas Dawson | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1596 | ||
The Good Huswifes Jewell (Second Part) | Thomas Dawson | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1596 | ||
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | John Gerarde | English | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1597 | ||
Health's improvement | Thomas Moffet | English | Transcription | Dietary | 16th Century | 1654 | 1746 | First printed 50 years after the author's death (1604). Writings date to the late 16th century. |
Health's improvement or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method and manner of preparing all sorts of foods used in this nation | Thomas Moffet | English | Transcription | Dietary | 16th Century | 1655 | 1746 | Originally written in 1590s |
A Closet for Ladies and Gentlevvomen | English | Transcription | 17th Century | 1608 | The Art of Preseruing, Conseruing, and Candying | |||
A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1608 | 2011 | An Elizabethan Book of Recipes for Confections and Banqueting Stuff | |
The English Huswife | Gervase Markham | English | Transcription | Husbandry | 17th Century | 1615 | ||
A New Booke of Cookerie | John Murrell | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1615 | ||
A new Booke of Cookerie | John Murrel | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1615 | 1972 | |
The English Housewife | Gervase Markham | English | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1615 | 1675 | This is the 8th Augmentation |
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | John Gerarde | English | Facsimile | Herbal | 17th Century | 1636 | ||
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Kenelm Digby | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1669 | 1910 | |
The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, knight, opened | Kenelm Digby | English | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1669 | 1910 | |
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Kenelm Digby | English | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1669 | ||
Le régime du corps de maître Aldebrandin de Sienne | Aldebrandin de Sienne | French | Transcription | Medical | 13th Century | 1911 | a medical book written in French, the lingua franca at the time. | |
Le regime dou corps d'Aldebrandin de Sienne | Aldebrandin de Sienne | French | Transcription & Translation | Medical | 13th Century | 1296 | ||
Le Régime du corps | Aldobrandino da Siena | French | Transcription | Dietary | 13th Century | 1300 | ||
Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes | French | Translation | Cookbook | 13th Century | 1300 | |||
Le Régime du corps | Aldobrandino da Siena | French | Transcription & Translation | Dietary | 13th Century | 1300 | Translation in Modern French | |
Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes | French | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 13th Century | 1300 | Translation in Modern French | ||
Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 13th Century | 1300 | |||
Une diététique monastique liégeoise du XIVe siècle. Le Régime de santé du frère Léonard de Saint-Jacques | French | Translation | Dietary | 14th Century | ||||
Liber de coquina | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | This manuscript it written in Latin and seems to be claimed by both Italian as well as French cooking historians | |||
Tractatus de modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | ||||
Eustache Deschamps et la moutarde | French | Transcription | Dietary | 14th Century | ||||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | |||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | 1486 | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | Transcription of Sion Manuscript and French translation | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | 1496 | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | Transcription of the Vatican Manuscript | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | |||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | 1892 | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | 1495 | Transcription of the Lyon Manuscript | |
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | |||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | Translation in Modern French | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | 1450 | Transcription of the Vatican Manuscript | |
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | Transcription of Sion Manuscript | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | c. 1485 | ||
Le Viandier de Taillevent | French | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1325 | Translation in Modern French of the Mazarine Manuscript | ||
Le Ménagier de Paris | French | Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1393 | |||
Le Ménagier de Paris | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1393 | |||
Le ménagier de Paris | Editor: Jérôme Pichon | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1393 | 1846 | Le Ménagier de Paris is a French medieval guidebook from 1393 on a woman's proper behaviour in marriage and running a household. It includes sexual advice, recipes, and gardening tips. |
Le Ménagier de Paris | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1393 | 1846 | ||
Le Ménagier de Paris | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1393 | 1846 | ||
Le Ménagier de Paris | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1393 | |||
Du Fait de Cuysine | Chiquart | French | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1420 | Translation in Modern French | |
Du Fait de Cuysine | Chiquart | French | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1420 | ||
Le Vivendier de Kessel | French | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1425 | Translation in Modern French | ||
Une fricassée à la François Villon | François Villon | French | Transcription | Dietary | 15th Century | 1461 | ||
Le Recueil de Riom | French | Transcription & Translation | 15th Century | c. 1466 | Found in a manuscript, in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale, known as Paris B.N. Latin 6707 | |||
Festin Donné a la Royne Catherine | Bishop of Paris | French | Transcription | 16th Century | 1549 | 1835 | from Archives curieuses de l'histoire de France.... 1re série. Tome 3e, Pages 417-422 | |
Tratado de las confituras | Michel de Nostre Dame | French | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1551 | |||
Tratado de las confituras | Michel de Nostre Dame | French | Transcription | Medical | 16th Century | 1551 | Recipes by Nostradamus | |
La Nature & Diuersité des Poissons | Pierre Belon | French | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1555 | The Nature & Diversity of Fish | ||
Le grand propriétaire de toutes choses, très utile et profitable pour tenir le corps humain en santé | Bartholomaeus Anglicus | French | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1556 | ||
De re cibaria libri XXII | Jean-Baptiste Bruyerin | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1560 | Text in Latin | |
De re cibaria libri XXII | Jean-Baptiste Bruyerin | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1560 | Text in Latin | |
L’Agriculture et Maison Rustique | French | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1572 | ||||
Historia generalis plantarum | Jacques Dalechamps | French | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1586 | 1653 | General History of Plants containing XVIII. books also divested in two volumes, derived from the Latin copy of the library of Mr. Jacques Dalechamp then made by Jean Francoise des Moulins |
Historia generalis plantarum | Jacques Dalechamps | French | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1586 | ||
Theatre de L’Agriculture | French | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1600 | ||||
Ouverture de Cuisine | Lancelot de Casteau | French | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1604 | ||
Ouverture de Cuisine | Lancelot de Casteau | French | Translation | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1604 | ||
L'art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruictz | Jacques Vontet | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1647 | ||
Le pastissier françois | François Pierre de la Varenne | French | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1655 | ||
Das Buch von guter Speise | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1350 | |||
Das Buch von guter Speise | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1350 | Download XML | ||
Das Buch von guter Speise | Alia Atlas | German | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1350 | ||
Ein Buch von guter speise | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1350 | 1844 | ||
Ein alemannisches Büchlein von guter Speise | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. 1400 | |||
Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard | Eberhard | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | |||
Ein Kochbuch aus dem Archiv des Deutschen Ordens | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Kochbuch | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | This handwritten manuscript has no "official" title | |||
Keukenboek | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Ein Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Regimen sanitatis in fluxu catarrhali ad pectus | German | Transcription | Dietary | 15th Century | ||||
Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard | Eberhard | German | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | |||
Die Kochrezepte in der Basler Handschrift | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard | Eberhard | German | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | |||
Ein Kochbuch aus dem Archiv des Deutschen Ordens | German | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Ein Kochbuch aus dem Archiv des Deutschen Ordens | German | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Registrum coquine | Johannes Bockenheim | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | 1430 | Written in Latin, this transcription has a French introduction | |
Erhard Knabs Gichtregimen | German | Transcription | Dietary | 15th Century | 1469 | |||
Kinderbüchlein | Bartholomäus Metlinger | German | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1473 | ||
Ein Regiment der jungen Kinder | Bartholomäus Metlinger | German | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1474 | 1792 | |
Ein Regiment der jungen Kinder | Bartholomäus Metlinger | German | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1474 | ||
Rogatu plurimorum inopum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa | Peter Schoeffer | German | Facsimile | Herbal | 15th Century | 1484 | Names of herbs in Latin and German; text in Latin | |
Gart der Gesundheit | Johann Schönsperger | German | Facsimile | Herbal | 15th Century | 1487 | ||
Küchenmeisterei | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1485 | 1529 | ||
Küchenmeisterei | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1485 | 1515 | ||
Küchenmeisterei | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1485 | |||
Kochbuch | German | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | Early 15th Century | |||
Kochbuch | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 15th Century | Early 15th Century | Bavaria/Austria | ||
Liber de Arte Distillandi | Hieronymus Brunschwig | German | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1512 | a practical manual on chemical, alchemical, and distillation devices and techniques used to manufacture drug therapies. It includes instructions on how to distill aqua vitae | ||
Das Distilierbuoch | Johannes Adelphus | German | Facsimile | Pharmacology | 16th Century | 1521 | Distillation | |
P. Dioscoridae pharmacorum simplicium reiq[ue] medicae libri VIII | Ermolao Barbaro, Otto Brunfels, Jean Ruel, Marcellus Vergilius, Jean Schott | German | Facsimile | Pharmacology | 16th Century | 1529 | ||
Von allen Speisen und Gerichten | German | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1530 | ||||
Von allen Speisen und Gerichten | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1530 | Includes the Art of Canning | ||
Herbarum vivae eiconeb | Otto Brunfels | German | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1530 | ||
Pauli Aeginetae Pharmaca simplicia | Otto Brunfels | German | Facsimile | Pharmacology | 16th Century | 1531 | translation of the Pharmaca simplicia, which is ch. 3 of book 7 of the De re medica by Paulus Aegineta | |
In hoc volumine continentur insignium medicorum | Otto Brunfels | German | Facsimile | Pharmacology | 16th Century | 1531 | Translation of De simplici medicina by Ibn Serapio (9th-10th century) | |
Ein Regiment der gesuntheit Für die jungen Kinder | Bartholomäus Metlinger | German | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1550 | ||
Das Kochbuch der Maria Stenglerin | Maria Stenglerin | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1554 | ||
Sermonum convivalium libri x : historicæ, poeticæ ac medicæ reisudiosis ualde utiles | Georgio Pictorio | German | Facsimile | Medical | 16th Century | 1559 | ||
Ars magirica, hoc est coquinaria | German | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1563 | A treatise about cookery and the treatment of ingredients (written in Latin) | ||
Confect Buch unnd Hauss Apoteck | German | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1563 | ||||
Confect Buch unnd Hauss Apoteck | Walther Hermann Ryff | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1563 | Art of Canning | |
Ein Kunstlichs Kochbuch | Balthasar Staindl | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1564 | ||
Koch vnd Kellermeistery | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1566 | |||
Ein sehr künstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch | Balthasar Staindl | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1569 | ||
Künstlichs vnd nutzlichs Kochbüoch | Balthasar Staindl | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1569 | ||
Fischbuch | Conrad Gessner & Conrad Forer | German | Facsimile | Husbandry | 16th Century | 1575 | ||
Kochrezept-Notizen | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1579 | These recipes were found in ein Exemplar von L. Frucks 'Teutsch Formular vnnd Rhetoric', 1579 | ||
Weinbuch | Johann Rasch | German | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1580 | |||
Weinbuch | Johann Rasch | German | Transcription | 16th Century | 1580 | A treatise about wine | ||
Ein New Kochbuch | Marx Rumpolt | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1581 | 1587 | You will need to search for the title |
Ein New Kochbuch | Marx Rumpolt | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1581 | ||
Ein New Kochbuch | Marx Rumpolt | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1581 | ||
Ein New Kochbuch | Marx Rumpolt | German | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1581 | ||
Ein New Kochbuch | Marx Rumpolt (trans. Sharon Palmer) | German | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1581 | 2012 | Rich Text Translation of Max Rumpolt's Ein New Kochbuch |
Kräuterbuch | Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius | German | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1590 | 1611 | |
Kräuterbuch | Joachim Camerarius | German | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1590 | ||
Calendarium Oeconomicum & perpetuum, Das ist Ein stetswerender Calender | Johann Coler | German | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1592 | Discussions on Bread Baking | ||
Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch | Anna Wecker | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1598 | ||
Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch Von allerhand Speisen, | Anna Wecker | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1598 | ||
Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch | Anna Wecker | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1598 | ||
Alte Kochrezepte aus dem bayrischen Inntal | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 15th or 16th Century | |||
Alte Kochrezepte aus dem bayrischen Inntal | German | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 15th or 16th Century | |||
Kochbüchlein | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 15th or 16th Century | Recipes from the Tegernsee Monastary as published in Germania: Vierteljahrsschrift für deutsche alterthumskunde..., Volume 9 in 1864 (see pages 198-207) | ||
Alte Kochrezepte aus dem bayrischen Inntal | German | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 15th or 16th Century | |||
Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin | Sabina Welserin | German | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | c. 1553 | ||
Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin | Sabina Welserin | German | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | c. 1553 | ||
Bericht vom Brotbacken | Sebald Müller | German | Facsimile | 17th Century | 1602 | A book on bread baking | ||
Grundelige betänkiande | Johann Coler, | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1620 | ||
Trincier oder Vorlege Buch | Giacomo Procacchi | German | Facsimile | 17th Century | 1624 | Book of Carving | ||
Kräuterbuch von Jacobus Theodorus | Jacobus Theodorus | German | Transcription | Herbal | 17th Century | 1625 | ||
Küchenmeisterey | German | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1485 | 2010 | ||
Anecdota Graeca et Graecolatina | Valentin Rose | Greek | Transcription | Dietary | 6th Century | 1970 | This edition contains Rose's transcription in a larger collection, with an introduction in German and textual variants in footnotes on the corresponding pages. It also highlights several variant passages not in the 1877 version. | |
Anthimi De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum, regem Francorum | Anthimus (Valentin Rose trans.) | Greek | Transcription | Dietary | 6th Century | 1877 | This separate edition of Anthimis' text is entirely in Latin (including the introduction); an extensive list of variants and a glossary follow the text. | |
De observatione ciborum | Anthimus | Greek | Facsimile | Dietary | 6th Century | c. 800 | A small-format compendium of ten different medical texts, produced shortly after 800 in an unknown scriptorium, probably in Italy. The contents also include a treatise by the Greek physician Anthimus in the form of a letter to the Ostrogoth king Theoderich "On the diet" (De observatione ciborum) | |
Anecdota medica Græca | Greek | Transcription & Translation | Medical | Antiquity | 1840 | Greek text with Latin Translation by Ermerins | ||
Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco | Italian | Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | Venetian | |||
Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco | Italian | Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | from the transcription of Ludovico Frati (ed.): Libro di cucina del secolo XIV. Livorno 1899 | |||
Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | Venetian | |||
Tractatus de modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | Based on two manuscripts, both probably from the beginning of the 14th century (p. 371f.): | |||
Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | Venetian | |||
Liber de coquina | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | This manuscript it written in Latin and seems to be claimed by both Italian as well as French cooking historians | |||
Libro della Cocina | Anonymous | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. 1380 | Tuscan | |
Libro della Cocina | Anonymous | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. 1380 | Tuscan | |
Libro della Cucina | Anonymous | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. 1380 | 1863 | |
Libro della Cocina | Anonymous | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. 1380 | 1863 | Tuscan |
Libro della Cocina | Italian | Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. 1380 | An Anonymous Tuscan Cookery Book as tarnslated by Ariane Helou | ||
Magninus Mediolanensis, Opusculum de saporibus | Maino de' Maineri | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 14th Century | c. early 1330s | A medieval sauce-book (Milanese) | |
Libreto de lo excellentissimo physico | Giovanni Michele Savonarola | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1515 | Maistro Giovanni Michele Savonarola (1384-1468) | |
Due Libri di Cucina: Libro B | Italian | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | Southern Italian | |||
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1475 | ||
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartoleomeo Sacchi | Italian | Translation | Dietary | 15th Century | 1480 | 1505 | Translation into Modern French |
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1481 | ||
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1481 | 1530 | |
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1481 | 1499 | |
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1481 | 1529 | |
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine | Bartolomeo Sacchi | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1481 | 1537 | |
De partibus aedium | Francesco Maria | Italian | Facsimile | 15th Century | 1494 | 1516 | Treatise on the parts of the house including the Larder and the Wine Cellar | |
The Neapolitan recipe collection : (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS Bühler, 19) : a critical edition and English translation | Terence Scully | Italian | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | 2000 | ||
Libro de Arte Coquinaria | Martino da Como | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1460 | ||
Libro de Arte Coquinaria | Martino da Como | Italian | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | c. 1460 | ||
Libro novo nel qual s'insegna a far d'ogni sorte di vivanda secondo la diversità de i tempi, cosi di carne come di Pesce | Christofaro di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1564 | ||
Opera noua chiamata Epulario | Giovanni de'Rosselli | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1517 | ||
Libro nuovo nel qual s'insegna il modo d'ordinar Banchetti | Cristoforo di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1549 | 1596 | |
Banchetti compositioni di vivande et apparecchio generale | Christoforo di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1549 | ||
Banchetti compositioni di vivande, et apparecchio generale | Cristoforo di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1549 | ||
Libro nuovo nel qual s'insegna il modo d'ordinar Banchetti | Cristoforo di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1549 | 1600 | |
Banchetti compositioni di vivande et apparecchio generale | Cristoforo di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1549 | ||
Commentario de le Piu Notabili, & Mostruose Cose d'Italia, & altri Luoghi, di Lingua Aramea in Italiana Tradutto | Ortensio Landi | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1553 | |||
Libro novo nel qual s'insegna a far d'ogni sorte di vivande secondo la diversità dei tempi così di carne come di pesce | Cristoforo di Messisbugo | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1559 | |||
La singolare dottrina di M. Domenico Romoli | Domenico Romoli | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1560 | 1587 | ||
La singolare dottrina di M. Domenico Romoli | Domenico Romoli | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1560 | 1593 | ||
La singolare dottrina di M. Domenico Romoli | Domenico Romoli | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1560 | 1593 | ||
Compendio de i secreti rationali | Leonardo Fioravanti | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1564 | 1581 | a "Book of Secrets" or a 16th century "How-to" collection with "recipes" for many things, including culinary recipes. | |
Del Compendio de i Secreti rationali | Leonardo Fioravanti | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1564 | a "Book of Secrets" or a 16th century "How-to" collection with "recipes" for many things, including culinary recipes. | ||
Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi | Bartolomeo Scappi | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1570 | ||
Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi | Bartolomeo Scappi | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1570 | ||
Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi | Bartolomeo Scappi | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1570 | ||
Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi | Bartolomeo Scappi | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1570 | ||
Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi | Bartolomeo Scappi | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1570 | ||
Le Vinti giornate dell'agricoltvra et de'piaceri della villa | Agostino Gallo | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1575 | A treatise on husbandry that includes wine making & cheese making | ||
Delle osservationi di Girolamo Calestani parmigiano | Girolamo Calestani | Italian | Facsimile | Medical | 16th Century | 1580 | 1655 | From the observations of Girolamo Calestani from Parma. Includes: First Part. In which every procedure is explaines and every special detail; with how to elect, preserve and recognize the virtues in cooking; Second Part. Where you are taught to make antidotes and medicines, that are still consumed in Italy, according to ancient medical traditions and modern techniques; with the order of how to make different condiments and how to preserve them. |
Il trinciante | Vincenzo Cervio | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1581 | 1593 | Cervio served as the Trinciante (or carver) for cardinal Farnese | |
Il trinciante | Vincenzo Cervio | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1581 | 1593 | Cervio served as the Trinciante (or carver) for cardinal Farnese | |
Trattato della natura de' cibi et del bere | Baldassare Pisanelli | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1583 | 1586 | |
Trattato della natura de' cibi, et del bere | Baldassarre Pisanelli | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1583 | 1586 | Treatise on eating and drinking |
Trattato della natura de' cibi, et del bere | Baldassarre Pisanelli | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1583 | 1611 | Treatise on eating and drinking |
Dello scalco | Giovanni Battista Rossetti | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1584 | A treatise on banquet organization | ||
Dello scalco | Giovanni Battista Rossetti | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1584 | Banquet & Carving Manual by the Steward of the Duchess of Urbino | ||
Dello scalco | Giovanni Battista Rossetti | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1584 | A treatise on banquet organization | ||
Il tesoro della sanità | Castore Durante | Italian | Facsimile | Herbal | 16th Century | 1585 | 1611 | |
Il Tesoro della Sanità | Castore Durante | Italian | Facsimile | Dietary | 16th Century | 1586 | ||
Il trinciante | Vincenzo Cervio | Italian | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1593 | ||
De lactis serique natura | Giovanni Costeo | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1595 | Treatise on the nature of milk | ||
De naturali vinorum historia | Andrea Bacci | Italian | Facsimile | 16th Century | 1596 | Natural History of Wines | ||
Tractatus de Vinea | Prospero Rendella | Italian | Facsimile | 17th Century | 1629 | |||
Trincier Büchlein | Mattia Giegher | Italian | Facsimile | 17th Century | 1642 | Book of Carving | ||
Kitāb Mukhtaṣṣar al-filāḥa | Ibn Baṣṣāl | Middle Eastern | Facsimile | Husbandry | 10th Century | |||
Calendar of Cordoba | ‘Arīb ibn Sa‘d /Sa‘īd | Middle Eastern | Translation | Husbandry | 10th Century | |||
The Ain I Akbari | Abul Fazl 'Allami | Middle Eastern | Translation | 10th Century | c. 1590 | Volume 1 | ||
Kitāb al-Filāḥa | Abū ’l-Khayr | Middle Eastern | Translation | Husbandry | 11th Century | |||
Kitāb al-qaṣd wa’l-bayān | Ibn Baṣṣāl | Middle Eastern | Transcription | Husbandry | 11th Century | |||
Libro de Agricultura | Gabriel Alonso de Herrera | Middle Eastern | Facsimile | Agriculture | 11th Century | 1551 | A work on agriculture and foodstuffs. Based on Kitab al-Filahah of the 11th Century and Ktab Al-Filahah Al-Andalusiyah of the 12th centuryl | |
Libro de Agricultura | Middle Eastern | Translation | Agriculture | 11th Century | 1551 | 1802 | A work on agriculture and foodstuffs. Based on Kitab al-Filahah of the 11th Century and Ktab Al-Filahah Al-Andalusiyah of the 12th centuryl | |
Ibn Abi Usaibia | Middle Eastern | Translation | 13th Century | "HISTORY OF PHYSICIANS" Translated from the Arabic by Dr. L. Kopf, 1971 | ||||
Fadalat al khiwan fi tayybat et-ta'am Wa-I-alwan | Ibn Razin at-Tugibi | Middle Eastern | Transcription | Cookbook | 13th Century | Text as published in La Cuisine andalou-marocaine au XIIIe siècle by Muhammad B. A. Benchekroun | ||
Kitāb ibdā’ al-malāḥa wa-inhā’ al-rajāḥa fī uṣūl ṣinā‘at al-filāḥa | Ibn Luyūn | Middle Eastern | Facsimile | Agriculture | 14th Century | 1348 | ||
Leonhart Rauwolff über Kaffee, Essen, Trinken usw. in Aleppo | Leonhart Rauwolff | Middle Eastern | Transcription | 16th Century | 1582 | Leonhart Rauwolff on coffee, eating and drinking etc. in Aleppo (German Text) | ||
Kuchnia polska dawna : urywki z jej dziejów od czasów najdawniejszych do końca wieku XVII | Józef Peszke | Polish | Compilation | 1903 | Old Polish cuisine: fragments of its history from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century | |||
Um Tratado da Cozinha Portuguesa de Século XV | Portuguese | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
A Treatise of Portuguese Cuisine from the 15th Century | Portuguese | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Um Tratado da Cozinha Portuguesa de Século XV | Portuguese | Translation | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1920 | ||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Translation | Cookbook | Antiquity | |||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Transcription | Cookbook | Antiquity | |||
De re coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | c. 1475 | ||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Transcription | Cookbook | Antiquity | |||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1541 | ||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1541 | ||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1541 | ||
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Translation | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1926 | Cookery & Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling | |
De re Coquinaria | Apicius | Roman | Facsimile | Cookbook | Antiquity | 1541 | ||
De alimentorvm facvltatibvs libri III | Claudius Galen | Roman | Facsimile | Medical | Antiquity | 2nd century | 1530 | |
Domostroi | Russian | Transcription | 16th Century | |||||
An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century | Spanish | Translation | Cookbook | 13th Century | ||||
An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century | Spanish | Translation | Cookbook | 13th Century | ||||
Fadalat al khiwan fi tayybat et-ta'am Wa-I-alwan | Ibn Razin at-Tugibi | Spanish | Translation | Cookbook | 13th Century | |||
Fadalat al khiwan fi tayybat et-ta'am Wa-I-alwan | Ibn Razin at-Tugibi | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 13th Century | Text published in La Cuisine andalou-marocaine au XIIIe siècle | ||
Libro de Sent Soví | Edited by Joan Santanach | Spanish | Transcription & Translation | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1324 | 2008 | Translation of Catalan text by Robin M. Vogelzang |
Llibre de Sent Soví | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 14th Century | 1324/1352 | 1423 | Catalan | |
Libre de totes maneres de confits | Spanish | Transcription | Cookbook | 15th Century | ||||
Tractat de les viandes i dels beures | Trans. Edició de M. L. Indini | Spanish | Transcription | Dietary | 15th Century | 1991 | ||
Tractat de les viandes i dels beures | Spanish | Facsimile | Dietary | 15th Century | 1474 | |||
Arte Cisoria o tratado dell'arte de cortar del Culchillo | Enrique de Villena | Spanish | Facsimile | 15th Century | 1499 | 1766 | An 18th Century reprint of a Carving Manual | |
Manual de mugeres en el qual se contienen muchas y diversas reçeutas muy buenas | Spanish | Translation | 16th Century | |||||
Manual de mugeres en el qual se contienen muchas y diversas reçeutas muy buenas | Spanish | Facsimile | 16th Century | |||||
Libre de doctrina per a ben servir, de tallar y del art de coch | Rupert de Nola | Spanish | Transcription | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1520 | ||
Libre del Coch | Rupert de Nola | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1529 | ||
Libre del Coch | Rupert de Nola | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1529 | ||
Libre del Coch (Part 1) | Rupert de Nola | Spanish | Translation | Cookbook | 16th Century | 1529 | ||
Libro Del Arte de Cozina | Domingo Hernández de Maceras | Spanish | Transcription | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1607 | ||
Libro Del Arte de Cozina | Domingo Hernández de Maceras | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1607 | A partial facsimile | |
Libro Del Arte de Cozina | Domingo Hernández de Macera | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1607 | ||
Libro Del Arte de Cozina | Domingo Hernández de Macera | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1607 | ||
Arte de cozina, pasteleria, vizcocheria y conserueria | Francisco Martínez Montiño | Spanish | Facsimile | Cookbook | 17th Century | 1611 |