SC - Opusculum de saporibus (was: Welcome ...) / sauce for lamprey

[Thomas Gloning]

<< Oh, and then there's Maino de Maineri's early 14th century Opusculum
de Saporibus, roughly, Little Book of Condiments, a sauce book in Latin,
which appears to have been plagiarized by Arnald de Villanova in his
much-more-well-known Regimen Sanitatis. >>

As you all know, Arnald of Villanova died 1307 or 1309 in a shipwreck.
Magninus died about 1364. The first texts of Magninus mentioned by
THorndike are from the 1320ies, when Arnald was long dead.

If I understand correctly the incipit of the Regimen sanitatis, quoted
by THorndike, it was the other way round:

"Incipit liber de regimine sanitatis Arnaldi de villa nova quem Magninus
mediolanensis sibi appropriavit addendo et immutando nonnulla" (p. 184
note 8, continued from p. 183).
Roughly: Here begins the book about the healthy way of life by Arnald of
Villanova, that Magninus of Milano 'made his own', whereby he added and
changed quite a bit.

On the other hand, Terence Scully in his "The _opusculum de saporibus of
Magninus Mediolanensis_" (Medium Aevum 54, 1985, 178-207) holds, that
the Regimen is the work of Magninus. In this case, the Regimen could
have been incorporated into the collected works of Arnald by the
_editors_ of Arnalds collected works.

Here is a sample recipe from the opusculum for the translators on this
list:

"Pro lampridis magnis assatis et murenis recipe zinziberi albi
gariofilorum gallange granorum paradisi ana 3. m. panis assi infusi in
aceto medium. Distemperetur cum pinguedine piscis et agresta et bulliat.
Vel potest fieri gellatina superius scripta. Et sicut dictum est de
lampreda similiter intelligatur de murena." (p. 188)

Enjoy,
Thomas

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