Taken Up in Honey

Verbs of dissolving and their liquids in a late Latin recipe book

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions excerpts the 412 clauses in which an unedited late Latin recipe book brings a solid into a liquid, and tabulates six verbs against six liquids, quire by quire. It finds that the verbs sort the liquids everywhere but in the tenth quire, which dissolves in honey what the rest of the book takes up in it, and reads that quire as copied from a second exemplar and left unharmonised.

@misc{slop_rl8jgs,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {Taken Up in Honey: Verbs of dissolving and their liquids in a late Latin recipe book},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.rl8jgs},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-verbs-of-dissolving-rl8jgs/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}