Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Part 76

DE OPSONIIS ET CONDIMENTIS, SIVE ARTE COQVINARIA LIBRI X.

ITEM,

Gabrielis Humelbergij Medici, Physici Isnensis in Apicij Caelij libros X.

Annotationes.

TIGVRI IN OFFICINA Froschouiana. Anno, M. D. XLII.

{Handwriting}

{Signature: Johannes Baptista Ba.s.sus.}}

NO. 7, A.D. 1542, ZuRICH

IN HOC OPERE CONTENTA. || APICII CaeLII || DE OPSONIIS ET CONDIMENTIS, || SIVE ARTE COQVINA || RIA, LIBRI X. || ITEM, || GABRIELIS HUMELBERGIJ MEDICI, PHYSICI || ISNENSIS IN APICIJ CaeLIJ LIBROS X. || ANNOTATIONES. || TIGVRI IN OFFICINA || FROSCHOUIANA. ANNO, || M.D. XLII.

4to, 123 sheets, pagination commences with t.i.tle, not numbered. On verso of t.i.tle a poem by Ioachim Egell, extolling Humelberg. Sheet 2 the dedication, dated "Isnae Algoiae, mense Maio, Anno a Christo nato, M.D.XLII." Sheet 3-4 have the preface; on verso of 4 the names of the books of Apicius. On recto of sheet 5 the chapters of Book I; on verso commences the corpus of the work with Apicii Caelii Epimeles Liber I.

The Apicius text is printed in bold Roman, the copious notes by the editor in elegant Italics follow each book. Very instructive notes, fine margins, splendid printing. Altogether preferable to Torinus. Our copy is bound in the original vellum. Inscribed in old hand by Johannes Baptista Ba.s.sus on the t.i.tle.

G.-Drexel, No. 14; Vicaire, 31; not in Pennell.

NO. 8, A.D. 1705, LONDON

APICII CLII || DE || OPSONIIS || ET || CONDIMENTIS, || SIVE || ARTE COQUINARIA, || LIBRI DECEM. || c.u.m ANNOTATIONIBUS MARTINI LISTER, || e MEDICIS DOMESTICIS SERENISSIMae MA || JESTATIS REGINae ANNae || ET || NOTIS SELECTIORIBUS, VARIISQUE LECTIONIBUS INTEGRIS, || HUMELBERGII, CASPARI BARTHII, || & VARIORUM. || LONDINI: || TYPIS GULIELMI BOWYER. MDCCV.

The first edition by Lister, limited to 120 copies.

8vo. The t.i.tle in red and black. Original full calf, gilt. Pp. XIV + 231. Index 11 leaves, unnumbered. This scarce book is described by Vicaire, 32, but unknown to the collectors Drexel and Pennell. Our copy has on the inside front cover the label of the Dunnichen library.

Above the same in an old hand: "Liber rarissimus Hujus editionis 120 tantum exemplaria impressa sunt." On the fly leaf, in a different old hand a six line note in Latin, quoting the medieval scholar, G. J.

Vossius, Aristarch. 1.13. p. 1336, on the authorship of Clius.

Directly below in still another old hand, the following note, a rather pleasing pa.s.sage, full of sentiment and affection for our subject, that deserves to be quoted in full: "Alas! that time is wanting to visit the island of Magellone [Megalona-Torinus] where formerly flourished a large town, of which there are now no other remains but the cathedral church, where, according to tradition, the beautiful Magellone lies buried by her husband Peter of Province.* Matthison's letters, etc. pag. 269.

"'* Jt was in the island of Magellone that Apicius's ten books on cookery were rediscovered.' _Ibid._--Vide Fabric. Biblioth: Lat: edit. ab Ernesti. vol. 2; p. 365."

On the verso of the t.i.tle page there is the printed note in Latin to the effect that 120 copies of this edition have been printed at the expense of eighteen gentlemen whose names are given, among them "Isaac Newton, Esq." and other famous men.

{Ill.u.s.tration: t.i.tLE PAGE, LISTER EDITION, LONDON, 1705

The first Apicius edition by Martin Lister, Court Physician to Queen Anne. Printed in London in 1705 by the famous printer, William Bowyer.

This is one of the rarest of the Apician books, the edition being limited to 120 copies. It has been said that the second edition (Amsterdam, 1709) was limited to 100 copies, but there is no evidence to that effect.}

{Transcription:

APICIANA

APICII CLII DE OPSONIIS ET CONDIMENTIS, Sive Arte Coquinaria, LIBRI DECEM.

c.u.m Annotationibus MARTINI LISTER, e Medicis domesticis serenissimae Majestatis Reginae Annae.

ET

Notis selectioribus, variisque lectionibus integris, HUMELBERGII, CASPARI BARTHII, & VARIORUM.

LONDINI: Typis _Gulielmi Bowyer_. MDCCV.}

Lister's preface to the reader occupies pp. I-XIV; the same appears in the 1709 (2nd) edition. The ten books of Apicius occupy pp. 1-231; the index comprises 11 unnumbered leaves; on the verso of the 11th leaf, the errata. One leaf for the "Catalogus" (not mentioned by Vicaire) a bibliography of the editor's extensive writings, and works used in this edition princ.i.p.ally upon nature and medical subjects. This list was ridiculed by Dr. King. Cf. Introduction by Frederick Starr to this present work. The last leaf blank. Our copy is in the original binding, and perfect in every respect.

{Ill.u.s.tration: VERSO OF t.i.tLE PAGE

of the first Lister edition, London, 1705, giving evidence of the edition being limited to 120 copies. This edition was done at the expense of the men named in this list. Note particularly "Isaac Newton, Esq.," Sir Christopher Wren and a few more names famous to this day.}

{Transcription:

_Hujus Libri_ centum & viginti _tantum_ Exemplaria _impressa sunt impensis infrascriptorum_.

Tho. _Lord A.B. of_ Canterbury.

Ch. _Earl of_ Sunderland.

J. _Earl of_ Roxborough, _Princ.i.p.al Secretary of State for_ Scotland.

J. _Lord_ Sommers.

Charles _Lord_ Hallifax.

J. _Lord Bishop of_ Norwich.

Ge. _Lord Bishop of_ Bath _and_ Wells.

Robert Harley _Speaker, and Princ.i.p.al Secretary of State_.

_Sir_ Richard Buckley, _Baronet_.

_Sir_ Christopher Wren.

Tho. Foley, _Esq_; Isaac Newton, _Esq_; _President of the Royal Society_.

William Gore, _Esq_; Francis Ashton, _Esq_; _Mr._ John Flamstead, _Ast._ Reg.

John Hutton, } Tancred Robinson, } _M. D. D._ Hans Sloane. }}

NO. 9, A.D. 1709, AMSTERDAM

APICII CLII || DE || OPSONIIS || ET || CONDIMENTIS, || SIVE || ARTE COQUINARIA, || LIBRI DECEM. || c.u.m ANNOTATIONIBUS || MARTINI LISTER, || e MEDICIS DOMESTICIS SERENISSIMae MAJE || STATIS REGINae ANNae, || ET || NOTIS SELECTIORIBUS, VARIISQUE LECTIONIBUS INTEGRIS, || HUMELBERGII, BARTHII, REINESII, || A. VAN DER LINDEN, & ALIORUM, || UT & VARIARUM LECTIONUM LIBELLO. || EDITIO SECUNDA. || LONGE AUCTIOR ATQUE EMENDATIOR. || AMSTELODAMI, || APUD JANSSONIO-WaeSBERGIOS. || M D C C I X.

Small 8vo. t.i.tle in red and black. Dedication addressed to Martinus Lister by Theod. Jans. [sonius] of Almeloveen; the preface, M. Lister to the Reader, and the "Judicia et Testimonia de Apicio" by Olaus Borrichius and Albertus Fabricius occupy seventeen leaves. The ten books of Apicius, with the many notes by Lister, Humelberg and others, commence with page 1 and finish on page 277. Variae Lectiones, 9 leaves; Index, 12 leaves, none numbered.

Vicaire, 32; Pennell, p. 112; G.-Drexel, No. 164. "Edition a.s.sez estimee. On peut l'annexer a la collection des Variorum d'apres M.

Graesse, Tresor des Livres rares et precieux."--Vicaire. Our copy is in the original full calf gold stamped binding, with the ex libris of James Maidment.

The notes by Lister are more copious in this edition, which is very esteemed and is said to have been printed in 100 copies only, but there is no proof of this.

Typographically an excellent piece of work that would have done justice the Elzevirs.

NO. 10, A.D. 1787, MARKTBREIT