Recipes

Peachy keen

Staff #MedievalMonday July 31, 2017July 3, 2017Medieval manuscripts, Medieval medicine, Recipes

So what has De fructibus to say about one of the summer’s most popular fruits? If you want to know how to use peaches in your beauty routine, look no further!

Folios 27v – 28r. Baptista Massa de Argenta, *De fructibus virtutibus*, Ferra, Italy. 1471. Call no. 10a 189.

Secreti medici…still a secret to me

Staff #MedievalMonday May 1, 2017April 18, 2018Codicology, History of medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Recipes

10a 131 is comprised of two volumes: one from the 14^th century and one from the 3^rd quarter of the 15^th century, both (probably) from the Veneto in Italy. Donated to the Library by Morris Wickersham sometime in the 1880s, the volumes were soon bound together.