Il ricettario della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze. Prime osservazioni su un inedito ricettario di fine Seicento

This paper presents the preliminary results of a study on the untitled and unpublished recipe book transmitted by the codex conv.soppr.F.VIII.1834 (National Central Library of Florence), previously preserved in the library of the convent of the Most Holy Annunciation (Florence); the codex contains both culinary recipes and «secrets». We argue that the composition of the manuscript took place in the second half of the seventeenth century (§§2‒3) and was done through the contribution of multiple authors (§4). Subsequently, we analyse its main linguistic features, with particular regard to orthographical instability and morphological variation (§5). Finally, we investigate the main sources of the cookbook (§6), examining in detail some recipes taken from Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera