 Over 70 collections of medieval recipes survive today, written in several major European languages.The repertory of housekeeping instructions laid down by manuscripts like the "Ménagier de Paris" also include many details of overseeing correct preparations in the kitchen.Towards the onset of the early modern period, in 1474, the Vatican librarian Bartolomeo Platina wrote "De honesta voluptate et valetudine" ("On honourable pleasure and health") and the physician Iodocus Willich edited "Apicius" in Zurich in 1563.