DESCRIPTION OF COMMENTARIES
NO. 21, A.D. 1531, FRANKFORT
DE RE COQUINARIA. VON SPEISEN. Naturlichen und Kreuterwein, aller Verstandt. Vber den Zusatz viler bewerter Kunst, insonders fleissig gebessert und corrigirt aus Apitio, Platina, Varrone, Bapt. Fiera cet.'; Francofurti, apud Egenolfum, 1531, 4to.
Ex Bernhold, p. XIV, unknown to the bibliographers. The above is related to the following two works. Apparently, all three have little bearing on Apicius.
NO. 22, A.D. 1534, FRANKFORT
POLYONYMI SYNGRAPHEI SCHOLA APICIANA. Ibid. 1534, 4to.
Ex Bernhold, p. XIV., unknown to the bibliographers. Copy in the Baron Pichon collection, No. 569.
NO. 23, AD. 1535, ANTWERP
SCHOLA APITIANA, EX OP TIMIS QVIBVS DAM AUTHORIBUS DILIGEN TER AC NOUITER CONSTRU CTA, AUTHORE POLYO NIMO SYNGRA PHEO. A C GESSERE DIA LOGI ALIQUOT D. ERASMI RO TERODAMI, & ALIA QUaeDAM LECTU IUCUNDISSIMA. VaeNEUNT ANTUERPIae IN aeDI BUS IOANNIS STEELSIJ. I. G. 1535. Small 8vo. Title in beautiful woodcut border. [_in fine_] TYPIS IOAN.
GRAPHEI. M.D.XXXV.
Pagination A-I 4, on verso of I 4, device of Io. Steels, Concordia, with doves on square and astronomical globe. On verso of title, In Scholam Apitianam Praefatio. Sheet A3 Mensam Amititiae Sacram esse, etc.
On sheet A6 The dialogue by Erasmus of Rotterdam between Apitivs and Spvdvs to verso of sheet A8; follows: Conviviarvm qvis nvmervs esse debeat [etc.] ex Aulo Gellio; Praecepta Cnarvm by Horace; De Ciborvm Ratione by Michaele Savonarola [Grandfather of the great Girolamo S.]; on sheet C5 De Cibis Secvndae Mensae, by Paulus Aegineta; and a number of other quotations from ancient and medieval authors, partly very amusing. The Apician matter seems to be entirely fictitious.
In the collection of the author. Vicaire, 701, who also describes in detail the 1534 edition printed by Egenolph but which is not the same as the above in text.
NO. 24, A.D. 1831, HEIDELBERG
FLORA APICIANA. Dierbach, J. H. Ein Beitrag zur naheren Kenntniss der Nahrungsmittel der alten Romer. Heidelberg, 1831, Groos. 8vo.
NO. 25, A.D. 1868, LONDON
H. C. COOTE: THE CUISINE BOURGEOISE OF ANCIENT ROME. Archaeologia, vol.
XLI.
Ex Bibliotheca A. Shircliffe.
NO. 26, A.D. 1912, NAPLES
CESARE GIARRATANO: I CODICI DEI LIBRI DE RE COQUINARIA DI CELIO.
Naples, 1912, Detken & Rocholl.
NO. 27, AD. 1920
FRIEDRICH VOLLMER: STUDIEN ZU DEM RoMISCHEN KOCHBUCHE VON APICIUS.
Vorgetragen am 7. Februar 1920. Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-philologische und historische Klasse Jahrgang, 1920, 6. Abhandlung. Munchen, 1920.
Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission des G. Franzschen Verlags (J. Roth).
NO. 28, A.D. 1921
G. STERNAJOLO: CODICES VRBINATI LATINI.
NO. 29, AD. 1927
UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUM RoMISCHEN KOCHBUCHE Versuch einer Losung der Apicius-Frage von Edward Brandt, Leipzig, Dietrich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1927. Philologus, Supplementband XIX, Heft III.
164 pp.
Dr. Edward Brandt, the philologist of Munich, is the latest of the Apician commentators. His researches are quite exhaustive. While not conclusive (as some of the problems will perhaps never be solved) he has shed much new light on the vexatious questions of the origin and the authors of our old Roman cookery book.
APICIANae FINIS
{Illustration: CANTHARUS, WINE CUP WITH HANDLES
Elaborate decoration of Bacchic motifs: wine leaves and masks of satyrs. Hildesheim Treasure.}