Borza Tibor (szerk.): A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum évkönyve 1970 (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 1970)
B. Sergő Erzsébet: XV. századi edényformák továbbélése a magyar vendéglátóiparban
E. BENCSIK SERGÖ SURVIVAL OF VESSEL-FORMS FROM THE I5TH CENTURY IN THE HUNGARIAN CATERING TRADE From among the Corvina volumes left to us the codex known in literature as Encyclopedia Medica is extremely interesting from the point of view of the Hungarian Catering Trade Museum. This codex is in the possession of the Biblioteca Casanatens in Rome. It is a work of science that deals with the application of plants, animals and mineral substances in the medical science. It treats on eight pages the preparation of wines and enumerates the curative effect of different wines keeping in view Diodeszkorides's canon. Among the preparation of wine and medicative indications some watercolours can be found on the pages of the codex. These water-colours do not closely concern the preparation of wine as far as their subject is concerned, however, they are in every case closely connected with wine, the storing and serving of wine. Knowing the scantiness of Hungarian illustrations in the Middle Ages we were very glad to see the drawings of these instruments connected with wine and the storing of wine. From among these instruments we can find several that formally survive in today's catering trade. From among the serving instruments the butt, the barrel, the filling vessel and the barrel-stand have mostly preserved up to this day the forms known from the codex from the 15 t h century. From among the serving vessels the present wine-jug of hard earthenware, several caraffe forms, the round glass, etc. are forms of which the prototypes according to our codex can be found in the 15 t h century too. The timbered table used in inns and described in the Corvina volume was still known in the village inns in Hungary at the turn of the 20 t h century, however, is no longer used in our days. Most striking is the similarity of form in case of wine serving tray and the round glasses put on it. The Encyclopedia Medica describes such a tray with glasses on it and at the same time we know that even today similar glasses and trays are known in the catering trade. The significance of the illustrations of the Encyclopedia Medica are the more important as they were made by an illuminator in Buda, and thus they prove authentically to be Hungarian. 89
