Re: VMs: The Villard Portfolio

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 23:29 18/05/2003 -0400, Matthew Skala wrote:
>    http://www.villardman.net/
>
> Villard de Honnecourt is known only from one work: a portfolio of
> parchment leaves with drawings and text on them, dating from roughly the
> 1220s-1230s.  Unlike the VMS, the text is understandable (it's in a
> language described as "basically the Picard dialect of Old French, with
> some Central French forms rather than Picard forms used consistently").
> However, like the VMS, there are plenty of mysteries about the document.

Does anyone have an electronic transcription of Villard de Honnecourt's 
folio 33r, with its "Cannabis Elixir" (a painkiller) and "Flower Color 
Preserver" recipe? [FWIW, I'm interested in the syntactic structure of 
medieval recipes.]

Thanks, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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