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For this reason, when it comes to old cookbooks, it's difficult to even speak of authorship when it comes to old cookbookin any meaningful way. Even if you can see somebody's name on the title page, t's it may be hard to tell if it's really the name of the original author or perhaps of a translator, editor, copyist of or publisher. Or maybe of someone who was a little bit of all the above. For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to such a person as "the author", but keep in mind the they need not necessarily be the actual content creator as understood by modern copyright laws. Besides, even the idea of copyright didn't even exist before the 19th century. Before that, people would just go and rewrite or reprint books (culinary or any other) without asking anyone for permission. They would sometimes indicate the original author's name in the copy and , but sometimes not. The very idea of authenticity didn't exist either, so a copy wasn't seen as something inferior, but rather as a new, maybe even better, version of the original thing. According to Galen of Pergamon (of whom [[Good Humour, Good Health#Whose Idea Is It?|I wrote before]]), the famous Library of Alexandria benefited from was so big thanks to a policy of sending royal customs officers to each ship which called to the local port , in order to gather any scroll of papyrus or parchment they could find and take it for scribes to copymake copies of. Then, they would give the shining new copies to the ship and 's captain, while the library contended would contend itself with the timeworn originals.<ref>{{Cyt