Mark Clarke Medieval Craft Recipes All Books sku-238391197

Tricks of the Medieval Trades is a paperback edition of the anonymous Trinity Encyclopedia, translated from Middle English for the first time. Its unusually detailed 14th-century English recipes were gathered from several people and written sources.

They cover pigment making, dyeing, preparing skins and furs, imitating imported leathers and semi-precious materials, adulterating verdigris, and making soaps and confectionery. Many recipes convey practical craft knowledge through tips, progress indicators and tests of materials and results.

The book includes an introduction; discussion of technical content, lost vocabulary, manuscripts, compilation, sources, date, audience and medieval English craft recipes; translation principles; tools and equipment; the translation; appendices on London, British Library, MS Sloane 73, recipe typology, earlier studies and revisions to the Early English Text Society edition; a list of figures, acknowledgements, glossary and bibliography.

Mark Clarke; All Books; sku-238391197. Appendix 1 covers the manuscript's contents, concordance and additional recipes.