What a treasure it would have been, recipes from several thousand cookbooks since the turn of the first millennium or older, but alas - there are no recipes her

What a treasure it would have been, recipes from several thousand cookbooks since the turn of the first millennium or older, but alas - there are no recipes here. This may be at best useful for laymen like me as an index for ingredients, prior to getting the actual book from a library or similar. Amazing example of cataloging effort though.