Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Chapter 18

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other appearances is by a different author than the preceding books. (Long after having made this observation, we learn from Vollmer, Studien, that Books IX and X were missing in the Archetypus Fuldensis.)

[2]. Tac.

{Illustration: ROAST PLATTER

The indenture is corrugated to receive the juices of the roast. Hildesheim Treas.}

{Illustration: TITLE PAGE, TORINUS EDITION, BASEL, 1541

Inscribed with comments by Lappius, contemporary scholar. The fly-leaf bears the autograph of M. Tydeman, 1806, and references to the above Lappius. There are further inscriptions by ancient hands in Latin and French, referring to the Barnhold [_sic_] Apicius, to The Diaitetike, to Aulus Cornelius, Celsus, Hippocrates and Galen. Also complaints about the difficulties to decipher the Apician text.}

{Transcription:

CAELII APITII SVMMI ADVLATRICIS MEDICINAE artificis DE RE CVLINARIA Libri x. recens e tenebris eruti, & a mendis uindicati, typisque summa diligentia excusi.

PRAETEREA,

P. PLATINAE CREMONENSIS VIRI VNDECVNQVE DOCTISSIMI, De tuenda ualetudine, Natura rerum, & Popinae scientia Libri x. ad imitationem C. APITII ad unguem facti.

AD HAEC,

PAVLI AEGINETAE DE FACVLTATIBVS ALIMENTORVM TRACTATVS, ALBANO TORINO INTERPRETE.

_Cum INDICE copiosissimo._

BASILEAE. _________ M. D. XLI.}

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