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Title

  • Libro de arte coquinaria

Other Title

  • Libro de arte coqvinaria

Names

  • Maestro Martino.
  • Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950, former owner.
  • Bitting, A. W. (Arvill Wayne), 1870-1946, former owner.
  • Bitting, K. G. (Katherine Golden), 1869-1937, former owner.
  • Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Northern Italy?], [between 1460 and 1480?]

Headings

  • -  Cooking, Italian--Early works to 1800
  • -  Cooking--Italy--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Italian--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Ms. codex.
  • -  Italian.
  • -  Title from caption, leaf 2.
  • -  The 64 textual leaves are preceded by one blank leaf and followed by 18 blank leaves. Manuscript recipe on rear pastedown in a different hand. Foliated in pencil in a modern hand.
  • -  Written in a humanistic hand in two tones of brown ink; 31 lines; vertical catchwords; scribal practice on the verso of leaf 83.
  • -  The scribe may have been Antonio Toffio. Cf. P. Shaw. "A note on the calligraphy" in Libro de arte coquinaria ... 1st ed., Octavo ed. Oakland, CA : Octavo, 2005 (CD ROM).
  • -  Has ink stamp shelf mark: Bibl. Vehling (with in ms.) 645. Formerly had the shelf mark (in the Library of Congress) of Med. & Ren. MS Coll 153.
  • -  Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, page 669, no. 1
  • -  Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, page 123, no. 153
  • -  Photographic reproduction and transcription available in Maestro Martino. Libro de arte coquinaria ... Milano : Terziaria, 1990. English translation available in Maestro Martino. The art of cooking ... Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. Images and essays also available in: Libro de arte coquinaria. Oakland, CA : Octavo, 2005 (CD ROM).
  • -  Purchased by Dr. A.W. Bitting for the collection of his wife, Katherine G. Bitting, and presented to the Library of Congress, 29 Jan. 1941. Previously owned by Joseph D. Vehling, with his bookplate. With a dealer's description tipped onto the rear paste-down, dating it to ca. 1450. Inscription on the rear paste-down; inscription on leaf 1 (blank) verso: Liber meu[m?] Raphaelis Baldoli.
  • -  Contemporary paneled calf binding over wooden boards, possibly Paduan.
  • -  Subject of: Mioni, Lino. From manuscript to print : the case of maestro Martino's Libro de arte coquinaria. Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2020.
  • -  Portions of the description by Dr. Ilya Dines. he04 2017-10-18
  • -  LAC ael 2021-08-12 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 83 leaves : paper ; 227 x 142 mm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX723 .M3 1460

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014660856

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Maestro Martino, Joseph Dommers Vehling, A. W Bitting, K. G Bitting, and Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts Collection. Libro De Arte Coquinaria. [Northern italy?, between 1460 and 1480?, 1460] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014660856/.

APA citation style:

Maestro Martino, Vehling, J. D., Bitting, A. W., Bitting, K. G. & Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts Collection. (1460) Libro De Arte Coquinaria. [Northern italy?, between 1460 and 1480?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014660856/.

MLA citation style:

Maestro Martino, et al. Libro De Arte Coquinaria. [Northern italy?, between 1460 and 1480?, 1460] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2014660856/>.