La veritable m[ethode] pour fai[re toutes] so[rtes] d'essences, d'eaux et de liqueurs rafraichiss[antes] a la mode d'ital[ie] : avec les manieres de distiler, tant au bain marie qua feu de sable

Name:

Audiger

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1690

Description:

Treatise on methods of distillation, with more than 50 recipes including la limonade, le vin muscat, l'eau de coriandre, l'eau d'angelique, etc. Table of contents at end (p. 59-64).

Language:

French

Provenance:

Purchased, 1960.

Subject:

Cooking, French -- Early works to 1800; Cooking, French; Distillation

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); recipes; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

34 leaves : paper; 206 x 82 (91 x 73) mm bound to 208 x 95 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page [i]. Parts of title are lost due to insect damage, and are supplied from the title for Audiger's La maison reglée, 1692. The headings for recipes here agree generally with the section "De la distilation" in Audiger's book, but there are significant differences between this text and the Audiger text published in Amsterdam, 1697.; Pagination: Paper, 34; [ii], 1-58, [59-66]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with additional recipe and notes in a second hand (p. 66, inside lower cover).; Binding: Contemporary calf with gilt border.; Origin: Probably written in the last decade of the 17th century.; French.; Related Work: Audiger. Maison reglée. Selections

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 784