Apitii Celii de re coquinaria libri decem
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Type of record: Book
Title: Apitii Celii de re coquinaria libri decem
Other titles: De re coquinaria
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1499/PLA
Creator(s): Apicius
Additional creator(s): Lancilotus, Blasius (Editor); Vitali, Bernardino dei (1494-1539) (Printer); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Binder); Gaisford, Thomas (1779-1855) (Former owner); Dunn, George (1864-1912) (Former owner); Hodgkin, John (1857-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Lancilotus, Blasius; Vitali, Bernardino dei; Bedford, Francis; Gaisford, Thomas; Dunn, George; Hodgkin, John
Publisher: per Bernardinum Venetum; Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus
Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): [1498-1500]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [32] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374058
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008282779705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-h⁴.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on h4v reads: Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinum Venetum.
Also recorded as [after 1500].
Edited by Blasius Lancilotus.
Printed wth 30 long lines to a full page.
Ornamental woodcut initials on a2r, a4v and b4v.
Small woodcut initials elsewhere.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00922000.
Indexed in: Hain 1282.
Features
Foliation supplied in pencil manuscript at the top right of rectos.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of red goatskin over pasteboard by Francis Bedford whose name is gold-tooled on the turn-in beneath the front pastedown. The upper and lower covers are decorated with a border and frame of blind-tooled and gold-tooled fillets with gold-tooled fleurons at each outer corner of the frame. The board edges and turn-ins are gold tooled with fillets and the book has gilt edges. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second, third and fourth panels are the words: Platine De honesta de voluptate. Bononiae 1499. Apicius Ven. S.D.. The remaining panels are gold-tooled with fleurons inside a border of double fillets. The book has pastedowns of marbled paper featuring a combination of the curl and comb patterns in red, orange, blue and cream. Size: 218 x 160mm. Leaf size: 213 x 148mm.
Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Platina: De honesta voluptate ac valetudine, 1499. -- 2. Apicius: De re coquinaria, [1499-1500].
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown bearing the name Thos. Gaisford. The book belonged to Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), English classical scholar and dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the collection of cookery books formed by John Hodgkin, F.L.S. The book was acquired by him in the third portion of the sale of the library of George Dunn by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 22-29 November, 1917.
Notes in pencil manuscript on the recto of the first front flyleaf giving details of bibliographic references.
Pencil manuscript inscription in the hand of John Hodgkin noting acquisition details on the recto of the back free endpaper: Lot 359 in Geo Dunn Sale 28/11/1917 - JH.
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Profile: George Dunn (1864-1912)
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Biography of John Hodgkin, bibliographer of cookery books, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855)
Biography of Thomas Gaisford, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.