Le Viandier is a recipe collection generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, alias Taillevent. However, the earliest version of the work was written around 1300, about 10 years before Tirel's birth. The
Le Viandier de Taillevant, from a 15th-century edition
Apicius, also known as De re culinaria or De re coquinaria, is a collection of Roman cookery recipes, which may have been compiled in the fifth century AD, or earlier. Its language is in many ways clo
Le Viandier
…Paris. The 1486 version contained an additional 142 recipes not found in the manuscripts. Twenty-four editions were produced between 1486 and 1615. Apicius – a collection of Roman cookery recipes Liber de Coquina – one of the oldest medieval cookbooks…
The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine
Apicius, De re culinaria (Lyon: Sebastianus Gryphium, 1541)
De opsoniis et condimentis (Amsterdam: J. Waesbergios), 1709. Frontispiece of the second edition of Martin Lister's privately printed version of Apicius