SC - Fw: [TY] Reprinting "Finding the Dream"

[Christine A Seelye-King]

jasmine,

>> I want to see if I can trace the Arabic traditions back to the Greek
medicine in the Hippocratic corpus and in the work of Galen.<<

Don't know much about the Arabic, but the humoural theory does derive
from Galen.  You want to read 

Scully, Terence. The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages. Boydell Press,
Woodbridge, UK. 1995. 

He does some of the best research and teaching on that I have found.  The
Sim books, in my just previous post, also have some writings on this. 
Another good one is

Rawcliffe, Carole.  Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England.  Alan
Sutton Publishing, Ltd., United Kingdom, 1995.  ISBN 0 86299 598 1.

While Platina certainly read Apicius, and refers to him--a literary
pretension, perhaps?--he took his cook book from Martino.  Read the
initial comments on the sources, in 

Scully, Terence. CUOCO NAPOLETANO, THE NEAPOLITAN RECIPE COLLECTION. New
York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS Bu:hler, 19,  U. of Michigan, 2000. 
End of 15th C.  A predecessor of M. Martino's LIBRO DEL ARTE COQUINARIA,
"a clear, primary link," and also the LIBRO DE COSINA, late 15thC. ms in
the Biblioteca Communale of Riva del Garda.  Provided Platina with his
material, ON RIGHT PLEASURE AND GOOD HEALTH, as well as THE EPULARIO.  

He copied Martino's work before he became Vatican Librarian--although he
certainly must have had access to the books, in the service of his
master, a Cardinal.

Regards,
Allison,     allilyn at juno.com


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