Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

existence of No. 2 on our list is doubtful. Therefore, we do not pretend having inspected or read each and every edition described herein, but by combining the efforts of the authorities here cited we have gathered the following titles and descriptions in order to present a complete survey of the Apician literature. NO. 1 CA. A.D. 1483, VENICE APITII CELII DE RE COQUINARIA LIBRI DECEM || SUETONIUS TR{=A}QUILLUS DE CLARIS GR{=A}MATICIS. || SUETONIUS TR{=A}QUILLUS DE CLARIS RHETORIBUS || COQUINARIÆ CAPITA GRÆCA AB APITIO POSITA HÆC SUNT || EPIMELES, (_Etc. In fine_) IMPRESSUM VENETIIS PER BERNARDINUM VENETUM. No date, but attributed to ca. 1483-6. Given as the earliest edition by most authorities. 4to, old vellum, 30 sheets, the pages not numbered. Georg-Drexel, No. 13; Pennell, p. 111; Vicaire, col. 29. NO. 2, MILAN, A.D. 1490 APICIUS CULINARIS (_sic_) (CURA BLASII LANCILOTI _In fine_) IMPRESSUM MEDIOLANI PER MAGISTRUM GUILIERUM DE SIGNERRE ROTHOMAGENSEM. ANNO DOMINI M CCCC LXXXX DIE VIII MENSIS JANUARII. Large 8vo. Edition disputed by bibliographers. Ex Bernhold, _præfatio_, p. IX, who (we are translating from his Latin text) says, "Here is the exterior of the book as extant in the Nuremberg library, most accurately and neatly described by the very famous and most worthy physician of that illustrious republic, Dr. Preus, a friend of mine for thirty years; whose integrity, of course, is above reproach; these are his own words--The book is made in the size called large octavo. It must be mentioned that the sheets are indeed large, so that the size might be styled an ordinary quarto. Fabricius, in his Bibliotheca, the newest edition, quotes a copy under this name. The entire book consists of five parts [sheets, folded into eight leaves--sixteen printed pages--stitched together] and two leaves. These five parts contain the text proper; these two sheets preceding them, are occupied by the title page, the dedication and a kind of poetic address. The text itself commences with p. 5, I should say, though there is no regular pagination. However, there are nevertheless in the lower ends of the leaves, called the limp parts, some conspicuous