Many medieval and Tudor cookbooks and recipe manuscripts have been transcribed and are available to read online or in books. Here are links to those I have found so far. I hope you find them useful.
- A noble boke off cookry ffor a prynce houssolde or eny other stately houssolde reprinted verbatim from a rare MS in the Holkham Collection (15th century)- available at https://archive.org/stream/b21529565#page/n5/mode/2up
- A Proper New Booke of Cookerye (1575) - Available at http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/pnboc1575.txt
- The Widdowes Treasure (1595) - Available at https://books.google.es/books?id=OwFnAAAAcAAJ&dq=The+Widdowes+Treasure&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- A Booke of Cookrye Very Necessary for all such as delight therein, by A.W. 1591 - Available at http://jducoeur.org/Cookbook/Cookrye.html
- The Feminine Monarchie, or the Historie of Bees, Charles Butler - Available at https://books.google.es/books/about/The_Feminine_Monarchie_Or_the_Historie_o.html?id=f5tbAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
- The Accomplisht Cook, Robert May - Available at https://archive.org/details/theaccomplishtco22790gut
- Gentyll Manly Cokere, late 15th century - Available at http://www.godecookery.com/pepys/pepys.htm
- The Gud Huswifes Jewell, Thomas Dawson (1585) - Available at http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/ghj1596.txt
- The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin, 1594 - Available at http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/ghhk/
- The Forme of Cury, late 14th century - Available at https://archive.org/details/theformeofcury08102gut and https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8102/pg8102.html
- Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books - Available at https://archive.org/details/twofifteenthcent00aust
- A newe booke of Cookerie, John Murrell, London, 1615 - Available at http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/1615murr.htm
- The Treasurie of Commodious Conceits, John Partridge, 1573 – Available at http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/treasurie.pdf
- The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened - Available at https://archive.org/stream/closetofsirkenel00digb#page/n9/mode/2up
- Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie, Thomas Tusser, 16th century - Available at https://archive.org/details/fivehundredpoint08tussuoft
- Du Fait de Cuisine, French cookery book from 1420, by Maistre Chiquart, master chef of the Duke of Savoy - Available at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/Du_fait_de_Cuisine.html
- Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin, Germany, 16th century - Available at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html
- Glossaries of cooking terms - Available at http://www.godecookery.com/glossary/glossary.htm and http://www.thousandeggs.com/glossary.html
- Delights for Ladies to Adorne Their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories, with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters by Hugh Plat (1630) - A scanned copy of the original text can be bought on Amazon - see http://amzn.to/1uulj8G
- The English Housewife by Gervase Markham (1615) - This has been republished and is available from Amazon, see http://amzn.to/1uuoYmZ
- The Good Housewife's Jewel by Thomas Dawson (1596) - Available from Amazon - http://amzn.to/1wmHAcJ
- Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking - A Tudor recipe book edited by Lady Elinor's descendant, Hilary Spurling, with modernised recipes. Available from Amazon at http://amzn.to/2gHLJcC
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