Lo scudo ne giorni canicolari : che contiene diverse acq[ue] / concie ad uso d'Androfillo Sannatele.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sannatele, Androfillo.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Beverages--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Beverages.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cookbooks.

Manuscripts, Italian -- 17th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Offered for sale by Antiquariat Inlibris (Vienna), catalog 139.

Sold by Editio Altera (Eastchester, New York), 2023.

Physical Description:

14 leaves : paper ; 145 x 110 (120 x 90) mm bound to 155 x 120 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1658.

Language Note:

Italian, in the Tuscan dialect (Editio Altera).

Biography/History:

Androfillo Sannatele is also associated with Wellcome Collection MS.45, a mid-17th-century Italian medical manuscript, where his name, suggested to be a pseudonym, is spelled Androfillo Sanatele.

Summary:

Two gatherings, probably from a larger manuscript, containing 29 numbered recipes for flavored and perfumed waters, intended for refreshment in the dog days of summer (giorni canicolari), with ingredients including jasmine, bitter orange, lemon, cedar-leaf, strawberry, tuberose, chocolate, and coffee. Due to ink oxidation, original foliation is lost and some larger initials in title page text and recipe titles are fragile.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, 14; 1⁸⁻¹(-2) 2⁸⁻¹(-8) (possible collation based on sewing and possible signatures); signed F, G, lower center first recto (f. 1r, f. 8r); original foliation in ink, upper right recto, lost to oxidation; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, [1-14]. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 14-15 long lines; title page ruled in drypoint; octavo format.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: 20th-century half roan over boards (Editio Altera).

Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Tuscany, in 1658 (title page, f. 1r)

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Related Collections:

A larger section probably from the same parent manuscript is London, Wellcome Collection, MS.45, acquired there in 1923.

Cited as:

Androfillo Sannatele, Lo scudo ne giorni canicolari (Ms. Codex 2131). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1390589185

Access Restriction:

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Online:

Collation model