The 16th century treatise, La singolare dottrina of Domenico Romoli of Florence, describes food and herbs, recipes, and diet for the use of the "scalco" or Renaissance house steward in Italy. This copy includes two plates of cooking apparatus which were later insertions, from the 1621 edition of Vittorio Zonca's Novo teatro di machine et edificii per varie et secure operationi. A third inserted plate derives from the 1665 edition of John Ogilby's The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse. In 2005 and 2006, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Voli donated over forty medical works, many of them early Italian titles, to the rare book collection. In addition to this printing from 1560, the Voli gift includes two other Venetian editions of La singolare dottrina, from 1570 and 1587, and printings of the Hortus sanitatis from 1497 and 1536. Three illustrated plates showing kitchens and cooking inserted into a copy of Domenico Romoli's La singolare dottrina
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