Cookbooks from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century are no longer of interest only to collectors and antiquarians. Food history is taught as an academic subject in an increasing number of universities around the world, and book and literary historians are also turning their attention to different forms of non-fiction that have not been properly studied until now: practical handbooks and didactic ''how-to'' books, of which cookbooks are distinctive examples. This bibliography will be a useful tool for students of culinary literature, as a source for the history of cuisine and food culture. Information provided here about the locations of known copies, modern reprints, and facsimile editions will facilitate these studies. This bibliography is the first to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700, describing more than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions, printed in fourteen different languages. Some household encyclopedias with culinary
