Abstract English codicological recipes survive in great numbers in manuscripts that were produced in the later Middle Ages. I argue that they suggest a little-theorized engagement with the medieval manuscript. Such recipes are not simply and straightforwardly instructional: in fact, they offer us fascinating glimpses into late-medieval perspectives on that relationship between the written word and the decorative aspects of words on a page, a nexus that seems central to the medieval book and that must have been a central cultural and visual symbol. Moreover, they also show that manuscript and document production was increasingly less specialized and occurring in domestic contexts in the fifteenth century. This article will be twofold, looking first at the landscape of surviving recipes, and examining in a more speculative way the relationship between their content, their materiality, and their imaginative qualities.

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指导与启示：十五世纪的医学食谱

摘要英国的药物学配方在中世纪后期产生的手稿中大量存在。我认为他们建议对中世纪手稿进行一点理论上的介入。这样的食谱并非简单直接地具有指导意义：实际上，它们为我们提供了令人着迷的中世纪视角，以了解书面单词与页面上单词的装饰性方面之间的关系，这似乎是中世纪书本的中心，一定是文化和视觉的中心象征。此外，他们还表明，手稿和文件制作的专业化程度越来越低，并且出现在15世纪的国内环境中。本文将有两个方面，首先介绍尚存的食谱，