The manuscript discussed by Nick (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) is a collection of various works, all about recipes for making colours. The recipes have been numbered in the margin, from 1 to 351: this numbering spans all the works. The first 20 folios are a well-organized index, referring to these numbers.
The work that Nick is more interested in (by the Milanese Alcherio / Alcerio / Alcherius) begins at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ending at f.90r - recipes from 291 to 303.
A few recipes at the end of the ms (after Alcherio's work) are in French, all the others are in Latin. Nick writes that Alcherio's work was originally written in Italian.
The recipes have different lengths and different formats in the various works. Averagely they are much longer than VMS Q20 paragraphs. The BNF ms is 101 folios, I think it contains about 60,000 words, vs about 10,000 in Q20 (as Nick observed, the number of recipes is comparable).
The work that Nick is more interested in (by the Milanese Alcherio / Alcerio / Alcherius) begins at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ending at f.90r - recipes from 291 to 303.
A few recipes at the end of the ms (after Alcherio's work) are in French, all the others are in Latin. Nick writes that Alcherio's work was originally written in Italian.
The recipes have different lengths and different formats in the various works. Averagely they are much longer than VMS Q20 paragraphs. The BNF ms is 101 folios, I think it contains about 60,000 words, vs about 10,000 in Q20 (as Nick observed, the number of recipes is comparable).
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