Lo scudo ne giorni canicolari : che contiene diverse acq[ue]

Name:

Sannatele, Androfillo; Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1658

Description:

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.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Offered for sale by Antiquariat Inlibris (Vienna), catalog 139.; Sold by Editio Altera (Eastchester, New York), 2023.

Relation:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Subject:

Beverages -- Italy -- Early works to 1800

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Cookbooks; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; 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.; Italian, in the Tuscan dialect (Editio Altera).; 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].; 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); Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2131

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund