Manuscript Summary: This manuscript is the only textual witness of this culinary treatise written in the year 1420 by Maître Chiquart, chef for the first Duke of Savoy, Amadeus VIII (1383-1451). The text was dictated to Jehan de Dudens, a scribe and notary from Annecy. The manuscript also contains descriptions of two banquets organized by the Duke of Savoy, followed by aphorisms, etymological annotations and glosses. The manuscript was part of the library of Bishop Walter Supersaxo (ca. 1402-1482) and his son Georges (ca. 1450-1529). (tog)
Additional description:
Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. III: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken St. Gallen-Zürich, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Rudolf Gamper und Marlis Stähli, Dietikon-Zürich 1991, Nr. 332, S. 120. Show additional description
Online Since:
11/04/2010
Sion/Sitten, Médiathèque Valais, S 103
Paper · IV + 122 + IV ff. · 29.2 x 21.1 cm · Savoy (?) · middle of the 15th century
Maître Chiquart, Du fait de cuisine, 1420
How to quote:
Sion/Sitten, Médiathèque Valais, S 103, f. 96r – Maître Chiquart, Du fait de cuisine, 1420 (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/mvs/cuisine)