PLATINA (Bartolomeo Sacchi, said). Platine en françoys tresu - Lot 145

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PLATINA (Bartolomeo Sacchi, said). Platine en françoys tresu - Lot 145
PLATINA (Bartolomeo Sacchi, said). Platine en françoys tresutile & necessaire pour le corps humain qui traicte de hôneste volupte et de toutes viandes et choses que lôme mange, quelles vertus ont, et en quoyent nuysent ou prouffitêt au corps humain, et comment se doyent apprester ou appareiller. Lyon, François Fradin, April 18, 1505. In-folio, gothic with 2 columns, 19th century brown morocco, gilt fillet, double gilt framing with gilt corner fleurons, and cold scrollwork, gilt central fleuron, spine decorated, gilt edges on marbling (Hardy-Mesnil). 4 ff. non ch., cii ff. (44 lines per column), signed a-r by 6. 12.000/15.000 Excessively rare first French edition of the first printed cookbook of modern times. It is the first translation into French by Desdier Christol, of De honesta Voluptate et valetudine. Platina (Piadena, near Cremona, 1421 - Rome, 1481) was the secretary of Cardinal Francis of Gonzaga, whom he accompanied to Rome, then librarian at the Vatican, a position he held until his death. He composed this very original treatise on gastronomy in Rome in Latin around 1465, and the first edition, undated, appeared in Rome around 1474. He mixed "literary memories of antiquity with the prescriptions of medieval physicians and the very real recipes of his time. Placed under the double patronage of Epicurus and Stoicism, De honesta Voluptate was a considerable success throughout Europe" (Livres en bouche, n° 21). The work is a "manual of art of living at the same time learned", quoting the ancient authors, "and practical", proposing various dietetic councils or recipes of the cook of the cardinal of Treviso, (id., n° 35). Divided into ten books, it deals with fruits (book II), honey, sugar, milk, spices, condiments, game, poultry, fish; wine occupies part of book X. Desdier Christol, prior of Saint Maurice near Montpellier, translated this treatise into French, and enriched it with numerous erudite comments, even proposing two new recipes. The Platine book was also translated into several languages, but it was in France that it was most widely distributed: this first edition of 1505, illustrated with numerous woodcut lettering, was followed by 13 others until 1586. The margins bear some traces of very old notes. Successive prestigious progenies: old armorial bookplate (de Noailles family?), bookplate Bancel (n° 113), bookplate with the Greek motto "PepoiØa", bookplate Édouard Moura, and bookplate "L.L. Deuzel" (pseudonym of Léon Lambert, a Belgian bibliophile gastronome). A washed and pastedown copy with some discrete restorations to the leaves. Vicaire, 692 - Baudrier, XI, 99 - Simon, 528. - Livres en bouche, 35 - Cat. Lambert, 1966: "of great rarity".
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