Can a cookbook serve as a historical source? If this is a copy of an ancient book of the 4th-5th centuries, then the researcher extracts a large amount of information from it. Cand. Sc. in History Ekaterina Nosova, a researcher at the Scientific and Historical Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History in the program “Autograph of History” reports about such copy from the Archive funds.
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