Cocus bonus
Subtitle: ofte geestelycke sinne-beelden ende Godtvruchtige uyt-leggingen op all de greetschappen van den kock
By: bemerckt door Peeter Croon, canoninck regulier, ende religieus van S. Maertens tot Loven.
Contributors: Croon, Peeter, 1634-1682.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By F. Beernaerts, in de Brevdelstraete, in S. Xaverius
Published: 1663
Place of publication: Tot Brugghe
Language: dut
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Exempla -- Early works to 1800; Christian life -- Early works to 1800; Cookery -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Cocus bonus tweede deel.
Notes: LC copy has ink stamp: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.
Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 108
BM v. 46, column 322
"The author ... has written in prose and verse; in the first part comparing the virtues and vices to the utensils used in cooking or to the finished dishes. In the second part, he figuratively serves a repast and enumerates the qualities of the various dishes, these furnishing him with subjects for philosophic and religious dissertation"--Cf. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bibliography, p. 108.
Date of publication from BM.
Vol. 2 has special t.p. which reads: Cocus bonus tweede deel ofte geestelycke bemerckingen op de tafel ende spysen van een volkommen maeltyt / door Peeter Croon, canonick regulier, ende religieus van S. Maertens tot Loven. Tot Brugge, By de Weduwe van P.J. Vincent inde Breydelstraete in S. Augustinus.
Engraving on leaf of plate signed Ioan. Boel, excud. Same illustration repeated on leaf of plate in v. 2.
Signatures: v. 1: [pi]⁴ **⁶ A-H¹² I⁸; v. 2: A-N¹².
LC copy imperfect: p. 65-66 and p. 203-204 in v. 1 lacking.
LC copy bound in 1 volume.