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=== Cookery D, foreign printed cookery books ===

The Cookery D collection contains a large number of printed cookery books from Italy as well as a number other countries.<ref name="In this collection">{{cite web|title='In this collection', Cookery Printed Books|url=https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43229|website=Special Collections|publisher=Leeds University Library|accessdate=6 April 2017}}</ref> For example, ''Opera di Bartolomeo Scappi'' (1570) is an illustrated Italian cook book with recipes and images of kitchen utensils.<ref>{{cite web|title=Opera|url=http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1798956|website=Special Collections|publisher=Leeds University Library|accessdate=6 April 2017}}</ref> The author is [[Bartolomeo Scappi]], renowned renaissance chef, who cooked for [[Pope Pius IV]] and [[Pope Pius V]] in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] kitchen.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tortellini in brodo|url=httphttps://www.coquinaria.nl/englishen/recipestortelli-in-brodo/04.4histrecept.htm|website=Coquinaria|accessdate=6 April 2017}}</ref>

Cookery D also contains the one [[incunable|incunabulum]] in the Cookery Collection, which the Library received from Blanche Leigh's donation.<ref name="Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum">{{cite web|title=Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum|url=https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/118518|website=Special Collections|publisher=Leeds University Library|accessdate=6 April 2017}}</ref> ''[[Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum]]'' is a poem which offers the reader a health regime and advice about keeping a good diet. For example, it recommends not eating too much.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Salernitan Regimen of Health|url=http://www.godecookery.com/regimen/regimen.htm|website=Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum|publisher=Gode Cookery|accessdate=6 April 2017}}</ref> The exact date of the copy in the Cookery Collection is unknown but it is thought to be post 1500 and is cited in [[The British Library]]'s [[Incunabula Short Title Catalogue]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Regimen sanitatis (held at Leeds UL Brotherton)|url=http://data.cerl.org/istc/ir00080000|website=Incunabula Short Title Catalogue|publisher=British Library|accessdate=6 April 2017}}</ref> The printer Bernardino dei Vitali was active from 1494 to 1539.<ref name="Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum"/>