The Forme of Cury of Italian influence. Some recipes in "The Forme of Cury" appear to be influenced by the "Liber de Coquina," which had contributions from Arabic cuisine. For example, the recipe for "mawmenee" (see illustration) corresponds to the Arabic "mamuniyya". The confectionery-like "payn ragoun" confirms the connection with Sicily (which had been Arab, Catalan and Norman), as it uses the Arab technique of cooking in soft ball syrup. The following is an example of a recipe taken from the modern critical edition of the text: In modern English: The Café at the Rylands, in Manchester's John Rylands Library, cooked "Tart in Ymber
John Rylands Library prevent the air being 'fouled by the opening of the outer doors' with internal swing doors between the circulation areas and the main library to 'preserve the valuable books from injury'. By 1900 the ventilation system had evolved to include electric fans to draw in air at pavement level through coke screens sprayed with water. On opening in 1900, the library had 70,000 books and fewer than 100 manuscripts and by 2012, more than 250,000 printed volumes and over one million manuscripts and archival items. The main foundation of the library's collections acquired in 1892 was the "Althorp Library" of