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CRESCENTIIS, Petrus (ca 1233 - ca 1320). Opus ruralium commodorum. Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Quedlinburg (Georg Husner), 9 March 1486.
Chancery 2o (280 x 205 mm). Collation: π6 a8 b-y6 z8. 148 leaves, final leaf blank. 46 lines and headline, double column. Gothic type 1:160, 2:99, 3:91. 4- and 6-line Lombard initials in blue and red in quire π, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Leaf i1 adhered at gutter, single wormhole occasionally catching letters, few marginal repairs on n1-2, some minor marginal dampstaining, some worming on gutter margin of quires h-i.) Modern vellum over boards. Provenance: Frederick Spiegelberg (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943.
An early edition of this famous treatise on rural economy. Includes materials on agriculture, wine-making, garden buildings, botany, horses, hunting, and other subjects. Petrus de Crescentiis was born in Bologna about 1233. He was a student of Medicine and Natural Sciences, and later practiced the law.
BMC I, 134 (IB.1849); BSB-Ink. C-697; GW 7824; Harvard/Walsh 229; HC *5831; Klebs 310.5; Pr 602; Goff C-968.
Chancery 2o (280 x 205 mm). Collation: π6 a8 b-y6 z8. 148 leaves, final leaf blank. 46 lines and headline, double column. Gothic type 1:160, 2:99, 3:91. 4- and 6-line Lombard initials in blue and red in quire π, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Leaf i1 adhered at gutter, single wormhole occasionally catching letters, few marginal repairs on n1-2, some minor marginal dampstaining, some worming on gutter margin of quires h-i.) Modern vellum over boards. Provenance: Frederick Spiegelberg (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943.
An early edition of this famous treatise on rural economy. Includes materials on agriculture, wine-making, garden buildings, botany, horses, hunting, and other subjects. Petrus de Crescentiis was born in Bologna about 1233. He was a student of Medicine and Natural Sciences, and later practiced the law.
BMC I, 134 (IB.1849); BSB-Ink. C-697; GW 7824; Harvard/Walsh 229; HC *5831; Klebs 310.5; Pr 602; Goff C-968.