The Vatican Apicius, one of the only two surviving manuscripts of the ancient cookbook. Written at the abbey of St Martin of Tours in the 9th century, the manuscript then travelled to Bologna and Urbino before joining the Vatican library in 1658, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.1146
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