New York, Library of the Academy of Medicine, until 1930 in
Cheltenham, Gloucester, Biblioth. Phillipps, 275, in the library of
Sir Thomas Phillipps, a codex ca. Ninth century, 4to, parchment, 275
pp., originally bound up with Phill. 386, which is said to have come
from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Ghislain, founded at the end of the
7th century in the diocese of Cambrai; partly in Continental, but
mostly in Anglo-Saxon minuscle of the 9th century, not unlike the
Anglo-Saxon minuscle of Fulda.
Title missing. Cf. Vollmer, Studien, pp. 5-6.
The writer who has hastily inspected the manuscript in 1931 is of the
opinion that three different hands wrote this book. Part of the index
is gone, too. The book commences with lib. VII of the index. Bound in
an 18th century French full leather binding. It was brought to America
by Dr. Margaret B. Wilson and presented to the library of the A. of M.
in 1931.
II, 9TH CENTURY
Rome, Vatican Library. Vat. Vrbinas, lat. 1146, Ninth century. 58
sheets, 2 blanks in the beginning and 2 at the end. Size 23.75 × 18.75
cm., heavy parchment, 20-21 lines to the page, not numbered. Sheet 1
R, illuminated by square panel in purple and gold letters (capit.
quadr.) INC̅P̅ || API || CÆ ||--Nothing else. Sheet 1 V--3 R the
title, EPIM e || LES LI || BER I, and the titles of Book I,
illuminated with columns, flowers and birds. Sheet 3 R between the
foot of the columns EXPLICIVNT CAPITVLA. Sheet 3 V a panel in purple
similar to sheet 1 R with inscription, INC̅P̅ || CONDITV̅ ||
PARADOXV̅. Sheet 4 R commences the text with the title, I, Conditum
Paradoxum. Captions, marginal figures and initials in red. The
captions are written in good uncials throughout, the first text words
usually in half uncials, continuing in an even and beautiful minuscle.
The Explicits and Incipits invariably in capitalis rustica. Sheet 58 V
end of text with EXPLICIT LIBER X.
Traube, Vollmer and others believe that this manuscript was written in
or in the vicinity of Tours in the 9th century.
III, 8TH CENTURY
Paris, lat. 10318. 8th century. Codex Salmasianus, pp. 196-203, Apici
excerpta a Vinidario vir. inl. (See illustration.)
Excerpts from Apicius, 31 formulæ not found in the traditional Apicius
and quite different in character. Cf. Notes on Vinidarius, preceding
the Excerpta which follow the end of Book X of Apicius.
IV, 15TH CENTURY
Rome, Vatican Library, Vat. Vrbinas, lat. 1145, parchment, 15th
century. 51 sheets, 20 lines to the page, title, Apicius.
V, 15TH CENTURY
Paris, lat. 8209, paper, 15th century. 131 sheets, 30 lines to the
page.
VI, 15TH CENTURY
Florence, Laur. 73, 20. 15th century. 84 sheets, 26 lines to the page.
VII, 15TH CENTURY
Florence, Laur. Strozz. 67, 15th century. 50 sheets, 23 lines to the
page. Title, Apicius.
VIII, 15TH CENTURY
Florence, Riccardianus, 141 (L III 29), paper, 179 sheets, irregular
number of lines, pp. 123-179, Apicius. 15th century.
IX, 1462
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