Details

Standardized Title:

De re coquinaria. Selections

Other Title:

Apicii Celii Epimeles Liber.

Subjects:

Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Cookbooks.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Cookery book attributed to Apicius. Appears to consist of excerpts from the De re coquinaria. In ten sections or books, each with its own title or heading.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit and explicit: "Apicii Celii Epimeles Liber Primus incipit foeliciter (f. 1r) ... "Apicii Celii Alieveslibus [sic] liber Decimus et Ultimus explicit foeliciter" (f. 29v).
Foliation: Paper, 29; [1-29]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 33 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in an Italian humanistic script.
Binding: Q leather over wooden boards, single metal clasp with leather strap.
Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century.
The word "Diligentia" is written over "Epimeles" in the incipit, in a later hand.
Bound with printed text: Platina, 1421-1481. Platynae de honesta voluptate. Venice, 1475. (Goff P-762). Shelved as Folio Inc P-762.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by C. S. Ascherson (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.

Contributor:

Ascherson, C. S., former owner.
Aresty, Esther B., former owner.
Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

213481282