17 octobre 2022
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Melissa Reynolds, « Shopping for Recipes in Early Modern London... Virtually », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdd4
By Melissa Reynolds Within just a few decades after William Caxton brought the printing press to England in 1476, Londoners had their choice of printed collections of medical recipes, herbal lore, instructions for distillation, and surgical instruction. Most of these editions were printed versions of texts that had been popular in Middle English manuscript collections, and printers did their best to choose from among these handwritten collections to produce printed editions that were better ...