Considering the numerous references to Murano in many recipes (“no se fa a Murano salvo da me“, it is made in Murano only by me) the provenance of the manuscript are the Murano islands in the Venetian lagoon.
Furthermore the author could be a guardian of glassmaker’s „secrets“, i.e. the recipes to prepare different types of glass. The presence of the word „Stella“, (”star”) on the first page, could be a reference to the family Barovier della Stella, probably the compiler of the manuscript.