[Sca-cooks] 14th Century Italian was Recipes

[johnna holloway]

As his Grace points out these are sometimes
listed as 14th and sometimes unlisted as to date.

Libro per Cuoco (Anonimo Veneziano) is listed by
Scully as being end 15th contents from 14th...
listed by Du Manuscrit de la Table's Repertoire
as being XVf entry 109.

Libro della Cocina (Anonimo Toscano) is unlisted by
Scully as to date.
listed by Du Manuscrit de la Table's Repertoire
as being A:XIV 3-4; B-C: XIVf-XVd entry 12

The title that I cited ---
Title: LVII ricette d'un libro di cucina del buon secolo della
lingua. Author(s): Zanichelli, Domenico,; 1858-1908. ; Morpurgo, S.;
1860-1942.; (Salomone),
Publication: Bologna : Ditta Nicola Zanichelli ...,
Year: 1890 Description: [4], 28, [4] p.; p., 30 cm.

is interesting because it's an unknown 14th century
work and it resides in Atlantia... and it's not in
the 1966 Faccioli set.
Since I own the two volumes of the Arte della Cucina
collection, I had already examined them and
not found what we were in search of in those volumes.
The Anonimo Veneziano and Anonimo Toscano are pages
19-57 and pages 61-109 respectively in the Faccioli
volume one. Faccioli notes that the Anonimo Veneziano or
Libro della Cocina is "finire del secolo XIV oppure
i primissimi." The second of the two, Anonimo Toscano
or Libro della Cocina is "alla fine del secolo XV, mentre,
se si tenga contro della struttura linguistica del
trattatello, la composizione e da farsi risalire al
Trecento."

I would recommend that people might start with Terence
Scully's The Neapolitan Recipe Collection. Cuoco Napoletano.
Ann Arbor: The Unversity of Michigan Press, 2000. It
lists a number of these manuscripts in its bibliography
on pages 36-40. It's widely available in US libraries.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis

david friedman wrote:>
> _Arte della Cucina_, a collection of early cookbooks etc. done  by
> Emilio Faccioli, includes Libro della Cucina (Anonomous Tuscan) and
> Libro per Cuoco (Anonimous Venetian), both of which I believe are
> 14th century.>
> I should add that someone who was translating Martino a few years
> back said that Faccioli's version of that was not very reliable (as
> compared, I think, to photocopies of the original manuscript).> --
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.daviddfriedman.com/