Book X

, judging from its recipes, phraseology and from

other appearances is by a different author than the preceding books. (Long after having made this observation, we learn from Vollmer, Studien, that Books IX and X were missing in the Archetypus Fuldensis.)

[2]. Tac.

{Illustration: ROAST PLATTER

The indenture is corrugated to receive the juices of the roast. Hildesheim Treas.}

{Illustration: TITLE PAGE, TORINUS EDITION, BASEL, 1541

Inscribed with comments by Lappius, contemporary scholar. The fly-leaf bears the autograph of M. Tydeman, 1806, and references to the above Lappius. There are further inscriptions by ancient hands in Latin and French, referring to the Barnhold [_sic_] Apicius, to The Diaitetike, to Aulus Cornelius, Celsus, Hippocrates and Galen. Also complaints about the difficulties to decipher the Apician text.}

{Transcription:

CAELII APITII SVMMI ADVLATRICIS MEDICINÆ artificis DE RE CVLINARIA Libri x. recens è tenebris eruti, & à mendis uindicati, typisque summa diligentia excusi.

PRÆTEREA,

P. PLATINÆ CREMONENSIS VIRI VNDECVNQVE DOCTISSIMI, De tuenda ualetudine, Natura rerum, & Popinæ scientia Libri x. ad imitationem C. APITII ad unguem facti.

AD HÆC,

PAVLI ÆGINETÆ DE FACVLTATIBVS ALIMENTORVM TRACTATVS, ALBANO TORINO INTERPRETE.

_Cum INDICE copiosissimo._

BASILEÆ. _________ M. D. XLI.}

APICIUS

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