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PRINTED COOKBOOKS IN EUROPE, 1470-1700: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY MODERN CULINARY LITERATURE.
Notaker, Henry.
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First edition. This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions were printed in fourteen different languages. Some household encyclopedias with culinary sections have also been included. Many of the editions described have never before been listed in modern bibliographies.
Cookbooks from this period are no longer only of interest to collectors and antiquarians. Food history is taught as an academic subject in an increasing number of universities, and this bibliography will be a useful tool for students of culinary literature, as a source for the history of cuisine and food culture. Also, book and literary historians are turning their attention to different forms of non-fiction that had not been properly studied until now: practical handbooks and didactic "how-to" books, of which cookbooks are distinctive examples. Information provided here about the locations of known copies, modern reprints, and facsimile editions will facilitate these studies.
The bibliography gives the full title and physical description of each work. Annotations provide details about contents, biographical data about authors and publishers, information about the sources of the recipes, translations, and plagiarisms. A historical introduction analyzes the development of the cookbook as a genre during the first two centuries of printing, with reference to authorship, publishing history, didactic methods, culinary processes, and differences in gender.
Henry Notaker, a literary historian, has written several books and articles about ancient cookbooks and food history, among them a bibliography of Norwegian cookbooks, published by the National Library of Norway. He is member of the editorial board of the journal Food and History
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BIBLIOTH'EQUE GENERALE DES AUTEURS DE FRANCE. LIVRE PREMI...
by Liron, Jean
Dom Jean Liron (who died in 1749) was a benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur. His work is placed exactly between the Bibliothèque françoise by François de La Croix and Antoine Du Verdier (both published in 1585), and l'Histoire littéraire de la France that was to be published from 1733 to 1736. Initially Liron wanted to write a "Bibliothèque générale des auteurs de France". However, understanding that it would be impossible for a single person to complete this he decided instead to write a series of "bibliothèques regionales" and started with the Diocèse of Chartres. A next volume, the "Bibliothèque d'Anjou" was only published long after his death, in 1897. After the general introduction Liron explains in detail his method of working. This section ends with a catalogue of works which he used for writing this work, which gives an idea what bibliography was like in the beginning of the 18th century. Each entry is both biographical and bibliographical. The entries are chronologically ordered and often in the first entries Liron mentions sources that only exist in manuscript. Liron deserves an eminent place in the history of bibliography but is lacking in Besterman (Les Débuts de la Bibliographie Méthodique) and in Malclès (La Bibliography). However, he is cited in Besterman's A world of bibliography (1230), and in Peignot's Répertoire bibliographique universel, p. 327. Copy belonged to the printer and noted bibliophile Jean Baptiste Verdussen (1698-1773) of Anvers (B. Linning, Bibliothèques et Ex-libris d'amateurs belges, Paris 1906, pp.35-37.) His ex-libris of two swans with the moto "Pietas homini tutissima virtus" is pasted in the front and back of the book. Handwritten inscription across from title page. Excellent condition. With the small private booklabel of H.P.K. (Kraus) affixed to the front pastedown.
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