[Sca-cooks] Fwd: … Archetypal Cookery
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 27 08:26:46 PDT 2005
I'm rather tempted.
Did you look at the "Sepulchural Souvenir"? It is a bookplate circa
1924 for the manucript's then-owner, Joseph D. Vehling. One of the less
favorite translators of Apicius, if memory serves. I adore the
skull-in-toque illustration however.
Selene
Cindy Renfrow wrote:
> Hi guys. Thought you might be interested in this. If you go to their
> website, they also have a high-definition facsimile copy of Martino's
> Libro de arte coquinaria for scholarly research on disc for $250 --
> such a bargain!
>
> Cindy
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Octavo is pleased to announce two new releases in its acclaimed
>> Octavo Editions series: Gaspard Fossati’s Aya Sofia Constantinople
>> (1852), an impressive suite of color lithographs depicting Istanbul's
>> famed Hagia Sophia, and Libro de Arte Coquinaria by Maestro Martino
>> (ca. 1465), a rare cookery manuscript from the Italian Renaissance.
>
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