Le Viandier

Le Viandier ( often called Le Viandier de Taillevent ) is a medieval recipe collection and as such similar Ménagier de Paris and you fait de cuisine a key work for the development of the food culture of the Middle Ages. The recipe collection is often the French royal chef Guillaume Tirel, better known under the name Taillevent attributed. Meanwhile, however, is certain that the oldest version of this recipe collection created before 1320 and thus shortly after or before birth Taillevents.

The original author of Le Viandier is unknown. This is not unusual for medieval and early modern recipe collections. It is usual was the fact that these manuscripts were published together in later writings with new material as the work of a later author.

From Le Viandier four major versions are known. The oldest, which appeared before 1320, is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Slightly younger is the so-called Vatican manuscript that has been republished in 1892 by Jérôme Pichon and Georges Vicaire.

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• Terence Scully: The Viandier. Prospect Books 1998 ( Text Critical Edition with English. Translation ) ISBN 978-0907325819