now i'm just showing off the new library Canon scanner, and i'm not even sure how well you can see this image. It's from one of my favourite journals in the library Petits Propos Culinaires - essays and notes on food and cookery. It doesn't come in an eformat so this is a scanned image from the latest issue (No.89) from a lovely article "Michelangelo and the working man's lunch." What you see here is an illustrated annotated, menu? shopping list? dooddle? done by this master draftsman, possibly when working in the Pietrasanta marble quarries on the tomb for the "tempestuous and demanding Pope Julius II." It's a beautiful little piece of history captured, but as fresh as yesterday.Working down through the menus you start with 2 bread rolls, a jug of wine, a herring , stuffed pasta, and the last 4 items depicted and annotated are 6 bread rolls, 2 dishes of fennel, a hering and "un bochal di tondo" - a jug of full bodied wine. Full article obviously available in the library
