[Sca-cooks] Re: Libro di cucina

[Louise Smithson]

Anahita wrote: 
Well, a search through old messages turned up a
reference to a Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco
(14th/15th c.) (Anonimo Veneziano)
Another ancient message mentioned the Hungarian Tarte
recipe in The Medieval Kitchen as being from Libro di
cucina del secolo XIV, which is from
Fratri, Ludovico, ed. Libro di cucina del secolo XIV.
Livorno, 1899; 
reprinted Bologna, Forni, 1970 ("Testi Antichi di
Gastronomia," 7)
Seems like you may have a photocopy of the 1899
edition...

Actually there is many more than one "Libro di
Cucina/Libro per cuoco" from the 14th and 15th C out
there.  Essentially all the title means is cook book. 

In my personal possession I have over 8 of these. 
Many of the recipe collections are similar (a number
of them merely being Martino translated into local
dialect), others are distinct based on recipe order,
ingredient usage etc.  Most of them are in different
Italian dialects, hence there is the Anonomio Toscana
- ie anonymously written in Tuscan, the Anonomio
Meridionale A&B - two manuscripts written in a
southern Italian dialect, the Anonomio Veneziano -
written anonymously in Venetian. And the book that
Kiri has which is a reprint of a manuscript held by
Bologna university. 
Of these two are available online in Italian, and one
is translated into English.  
Helewyse
 

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