Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

|| API || CÆ ||--Nothing else. Sheet 1 V--3 R the title, EPIM e || LES LI || BER I, and the titles of Book I, illuminated with columns, flowers and birds. Sheet 3 R between the foot of the columns EXPLICIVNT CAPITVLA. Sheet 3 V a panel in purple similar to sheet 1 R with inscription, IN{=C}{=P} || CONDIT{=V} || PARADOX{=V}. Sheet 4 R commences the text with the title, I, Conditum Paradoxum. Captions, marginal figures and initials in red. The captions are written in good uncials throughout, the first text words usually in half uncials, continuing in an even and beautiful minuscle. The Explicits and Incipits invariably in capitalis rustica. Sheet 58 V end of text with EXPLICIT LIBER X. Traube, Vollmer and others believe that this manuscript was written in or in the vicinity of Tours in the 9th century. III, 8TH CENTURY Paris, lat. 10318. 8th century. Codex Salmasianus, pp. 196-203, Apici excerpta a Vinidario vir. inl. (See illustration.) Excerpts from Apicius, 31 formulæ not found in the traditional Apicius and quite different in character. Cf. Notes on Vinidarius, preceding the Excerpta which follow the end of Book X of Apicius. IV, 15TH CENTURY Rome, Vatican Library, Vat. Vrbinas, lat. 1145, parchment, 15th century. 51 sheets, 20 lines to the page, title, Apicius. V, 15TH CENTURY Paris, lat. 8209, paper, 15th century. 131 sheets, 30 lines to the page. VI, 15TH CENTURY Florence, Laur. 73, 20. 15th century. 84 sheets, 26 lines to the page. VII, 15TH CENTURY Florence, Laur. Strozz. 67, 15th century. 50 sheets, 23 lines to the page. Title, Apicius. VIII, 15TH CENTURY Florence, Riccardianus, 141 (L III 29), paper, 179 sheets, irregular number of lines, pp. 123-179, Apicius. 15th century. IX, 1462 Florence, Riccardianus, 662 (M I 26), finished April 4th, 1462, paper, 79 sheets, 26 lines to the page. Pp. 41-79 Apicius, written by Pascutius Sabinus, Bologna, 1462. X, 1490 Oxford, Bodl. Canon, lat. 168 4to min. 78 pp. dated May 28th, 1490. (_In fine_) scriptum per me Petrum Antonium Salandum Reginensem die xxviii Maii MCCCCLXXXX. XI, 15TH CENTURY Oxford, Bodl.