Layout: 20 long lines, vertical bounding lines on both sides of the text area; chapter lists for Books 1, 3, 5, 8, and 9 in 2 columns. Layout: Copied during the 830s in two parts, essentially simultaneously, with one copyist producing Books 7-10, while several others produced varying parts of Books 1-6 (cf. the blank verso of the end of this section, f. 35v). Layout: Division of hands by Hope Mayo: A=Anglo-Saxon minuscule; M=Caroline minuscule; note that the shift from one script to another sometimes occurs at mid-line: Layout: A1 (copied 83 of the extant 113 pages= ca. 70% of book, including Books 7-10, ff. 36-58v) A2 (f. 35r, and 2 words at top of f. 35v) M1a (f. 2r, l.1 – f. 2v, l.20) M1b (f. 3r, l.2 – f. 4r, l.13) M1c (f. 4r, l.13 – f. 5v, l.20) M2 (f. 6, l.1 – l.15; f. 6v, l.3 – f. 7v, l. 7) M3 (f.6, l.15 – f. 6v, l.2) M4 (f. 23, l.1 – f. 24v, l.20; f. 27v, l.2 – f. 34v, l. 20). Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule; Caroline minuscule Decoration: Initials in red; those in the areas copied in Anglo-Saxon minuscule frequently with decorative spots of red-orange ink. Binding: Bound in 2006 by Deborah Evetts in white tawed skin over boards; raised bands on spine. Previous binding retained in library files: mottled calf over pasteboard with gilt designing and gilt edges; brown marbled endpapers. Number of scribes: 8? Provenance: Produced apparently at Fulda, in Germany, together with its second part, now Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cod. Bodmer 84 (see below); it is possible that Poggio Bracciolini (1430-1459) saw the book in 1417 while it was still at Fulda. Provenance: Brought to Italy by Enoch of Ascoli (ca. 1400-ca. 1457) in 1455. During the 1460s, this manuscript (or a copy of it) was collated by members of the Academy of Pomponio Leto in Rome. Provenance: According to H. Mayo (article cited below), the manuscript belonged briefly to Cardinal [Basilius] Bessarion (1403?-1472), to Niccolò Perotti (1429 or 1430-1480) and to Francesco Maturanzio (ca. 1443-1518). Provenance: By the mid 18th century (given the style of the binding previously on this manuscript), the ms was in France when the two main parts of the book were separated and rebound. Provenance: In 1824 the two parts of the manuscript were acquired from De Bure by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), and were entered into his catalogue list (1824) at n. 275 (the Apicius) and n. 386 (Cod. Bodmer 84). Provenance: Approx. one century later, Phillipps’s grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938) who had inherited the Phillipps collection, sold the Apicius to Dr. Margaret Barclay Wilson (1863-1945). Provenance: Dr. Wilson gave her collection of some 4000 items on cooking to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928; one year later, she donated this ms of Apicius to the Academy, and the book was formally accessioned in 1934. Provenance: Both Wilson and later the executor of her will, Helen H. Tanzer (1876-1961) worked towards an edition of the Apicius, although neither finished her work. In the 1950s, Mary Ella Milham began work on this text; her edition was published in 1969. 1st gathering (8 leaves, minus first) 2nd -3rd gatherings (8 leaves) 4th gathering (10 leaves, plus 11th, f. 35) 5th-6th gatherings (8 leaves) 7th gathering (6 leaves, plus 6th, f. 57). The final five quires are signed on the last leaf verso with roman numerals between decorative dots. In an early modern hand in the lower margin of f. 2, “Apicius. Hippocrates, De ratione victus et alia” citing the two texts originally bound here together; the second text is now Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cod. Bodmer 84 (formerly Cheltenham, Phillipps 386). Apicius, Decem libri qui dicuntur de re coquinaria et exerpta a Vinidario conscripta, ed. Mary Ella Milham (Leipzig: Teubner, 1969), this manuscript designated as E; it is available, fully digitized, on the website of the New York Academy of Medicine. The one other 9th century manuscript of this text is Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 1146, with siglum V (digitized and available on that library’s website) It was produced at Tours, also during the second quarter of the 9th century.
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