Mensa phica
Subtitle: optime custos valitudi[ni]s studiosis iuuenib[us] apparata no[n] min[us] s[e]n[tent]iar[um] grauitate co[n]ducibilis quam facetiar[um] enarratio[n]e delectabilis
Contributors: Scot, Michael, approximately 1175-approximately 1234; Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530
Series: French books before 1601 -- reel 55, item 6
Publisher: Iohāne Petit
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Parisius
Language: lat
Subjects: Gastronomy; Early works to 1800; Diet; Table-talk
Work titles: Mensa philosophica
Notes: Variously attributed to Michael Scott and to Theobaldus Anguilbertus. Not to be confused with the Tractatus mensae philosophicae et responsorium curiosorum of Conradus, de Halberstadt. Cf. Brian Lawn, The Salernitan Questions. Oxford, 1963, p. 103-111, and Brunet, v. 3, col. 1635-6.

Date from colophon: "Parrisii impressus Anno ab orbe redempto quingentesimo supra millenium pridiedus apriles.

Contains prefatory epistle by Theobaldus Anguilbertus.

Device of Jean Petit the elder (Haebler XI) on title page.

References: Goff M 496 [possibly with fictitious date]; Klebs p. 225 (note); Schullian 312.

For detailed contents, see D.M. Schullian, Cat. of incun., 1950, 312.