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Mo Yan, was born in 1955 in Gaomi Township in Shandong Province, a rural area that is the setting for much of his fiction. Mo Yan ("don't speak") is a pseudonym for Guan Moye on the advice of his parents as a school-age boy during the Mao era. The…

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

England, circa 1668. Contains approximately 300 culinary recipes and 425 household remedies for disease, wounds, etc.