The heterogenous nature of early modern manuscript manuscript recipe books: a study of recipe book functions [c.1500-c.1800]

早期现代手稿手稿食谱书的异质性：食谱书功能的研究[c.1500-c.1800]

• 批准号: 2387852
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2387852
• 关键词: heterogenous; nature; early; modern; manuscript

This project aims to survey the Wellcome Library's large manuscript recipe book collection for interesting physical attributes, recipe attributions, ownership, and use to explore how the materiality of manuscript recipe books has affected meaning, use, and transmission. This PhD project would also assist further recipe book study by creating online resources that supplement incomplete or outdated archival descriptions. Since the 1980s, there has been substantial growth in the study of early modern manuscript recipe books, partly due to a growing focus on women's history and the development of manuscript theory. Over the last decade, there has been a new appreciation of these manuscripts as being worthy of study in and of themselves, as opposed to being used purely as historical evidence. This increase in scholarship is also likely to have been supported by the Wellcome Library's microfilming and subsequent digitisation of their large manuscript recipe book collection which has made them globally accessible (Aspin, 2017). As a result, an interdisciplinary recipe book field has been established with early modern manuscript recipe books beginning to be appreciated as a valuable resource for early modern scholars in various fields. Despite this growing interest, the palaeographical and material aspects of early modern recipes and manuscript recipe books are underutilised. This is exacerbated by the fact that these manuscripts have been separated from family papers and sold/donated to libraries. The manuscripts are then catalogued to General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)) standards, which call for particular mandatory fields to be included with a catalogue, including the date an item was produced and its authors' name(s). This information is used to find material within an archive. However, due to the heterogenous nature of early modern manuscript recipe books production and use, ISAD(G) cataloguing has the unintended consequence of hiding recipe books' multigenerational and multipurpose nature. By surveying material/palaeographical characteristics, such as recipe attributions and evidence of multiple contributors, it becomes apparent that these texts were not only repositories for recipe knowledge but a site where domestic life took place. For example, palaeographical evidence in Martha Hodges' recipe book suggests that it acted not only as a place to document recipes and their efficacy, but was actually a site where domestic life took place. Research into the ways in which manuscript recipe books have been compiled, used, and disseminated will open up these texts further as a resource for early modern study. This PhD project would also contribute to recipe book research by sharing data online in appropriate standard and open formats, under the terms of a Creative Commons license to supplement current inaccurate and brief cataloguing metadata. In particular, the palaeographical, physical, and biographical details that are impossible to represent in archival metadata would be made accessible through an online platform similar to that of the Early Modern Female Book Ownership project. The project website will not only draw attention to the complex lives of recipe books, recipe network, and domestic medicine, but would fill the current need for accurate and comprehensive finding aids and item descriptions. This PhD project will project will place the materiality of manuscripts firmly in the centre of recipe book study, examine the impact of recipes and their authors on the transmission of early modern medical knowledge, and help progress this burgeoning new field through creating online resources which will open up these texts for further interdisciplinary (and also remote) study.

该项目旨在调查威康图书馆的大型手稿食谱收藏有趣的物理属性，食谱属性，所有权和使用，探索手稿食谱的重要性如何影响意义，使用和传输。这个博士项目还将通过创建在线资源来补充不完整或过时的档案描述，从而有助于进一步的食谱研究。自20世纪80年代以来，对早期现代手稿食谱的研究有了实质性的增长，部分原因是越来越关注女性历史和手稿理论的发展。在过去的十年里，这些手稿本身值得研究，而不是纯粹作为历史证据。奖学金的增加也可能得到了维康图书馆缩微胶片的支持，以及随后对其大型手稿食谱收藏的数字化，这使得它们在全球范围内都可以访问（Aspin，2017）。因此，一个跨学科的食谱领域已经建立，早期现代手稿食谱开始被视为早期现代学者在各个领域的宝贵资源。尽管这种兴趣越来越大，但早期现代食谱和手稿食谱的古文字和材料方面都没有得到充分利用。这些手稿被从家庭文件中分离出来，出售/捐赠给图书馆，这一事实加剧了这种情况。然后，手稿按照国际通用标准档案著录（ISAD（G））标准编目，该标准要求在目录中列入特定的强制性字段，包括项目的制作日期及其作者姓名。此信息用于在档案中查找材料。然而，由于早期现代手稿食谱生产和使用的异质性，ISAD（G）编目有隐藏食谱的多代和多用途的性质的意想不到的后果。通过调查材料/古地理特征，如食谱归属和多个贡献者的证据，很明显，这些文本不仅是食谱知识的宝库，而且是家庭生活发生的场所。例如，玛莎·霍奇斯的食谱书中的古文字证据表明，它不仅是记录食谱及其功效的地方，而且实际上是家庭生活发生的地方。 研究手稿食谱的编纂、使用和传播方式，将进一步打开这些文本作为早期现代研究的资源。这个博士项目还将有助于食谱研究，在知识共享许可证的条款下，以适当的标准和开放格式在线共享数据，以补充当前不准确和简短的编目元数据。特别是，不可能在档案元数据中表示的古地理，物理和传记细节将通过类似于早期现代女性图书所有权项目的在线平台提供。该项目网站不仅将引起人们对食谱、食谱网络和家庭医学的复杂生活的关注，而且将满足当前对准确和全面的查找辅助工具和项目描述的需求。这个博士项目将把手稿的重要性牢牢地放在食谱研究的中心，研究食谱及其作者对早期现代医学知识传播的影响，并通过创建在线资源来帮助这个新兴的新领域取得进展，这些资源将为进一步的跨学科（和远程）研究打开这些文本。