Pages with occasional smears, stains, insignificant foxing. Small area of worm damage in lower margins, touching text on only a very few pages. A very pleasing addition to any cookery collection. Just So . . . Whether the new and delicious New World drink, chocolate, was allowable for those in the monastic life, and whether drinking it counted as breaking one's fast, were hot questions in the 17th-century Catholic Church.
Church rulings on proper and improper uses of chocolate appear for a long time.
This Dominican chapter meeting of 1616 was held in the main monastery in Mexico City. This is printed in italic and roman types with text in Latin and Spanish. No copies are listed in NUC or its supplements. Modern marbled boards with leather label on front cover. Some contemporary marginalia.