![[Scriptores rei rusticae:] MARCUS PORCIUS CATO (c.154 B.C.). Enarrationes. De re rustica. [With:] MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica; L. JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA (4-70 A.D.). De re rustica. Commented by Julius Pompanius Laetus; RUTILIUS TAURUS PALLADIUS (fl.4th century A.D.) De re rustica. Edited by Franciscus Colucia, Georgius Merula and Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 20 November 1499.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0106_001(scriptores_rei_rusticae_marcus_porcius_cato_enarrationes_de_re_rustica054946).jpg?w=1)
![[Scriptores rei rusticae:] MARCUS PORCIUS CATO (c.154 B.C.). Enarrationes. De re rustica. [With:] MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica; L. JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA (4-70 A.D.). De re rustica. Commented by Julius Pompanius Laetus; RUTILIUS TAURUS PALLADIUS (fl.4th century A.D.) De re rustica. Edited by Franciscus Colucia, Georgius Merula and Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 20 November 1499.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0106_000(scriptores_rei_rusticae_marcus_porcius_cato_enarrationes_de_re_rustica073315).jpg?w=1)
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[Scriptores rei rusticae:] MARCUS PORCIUS CATO (c.154 B.C.). Enarrationes. De re rustica. [With:] MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica; L. JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA (4-70 A.D.). De re rustica. Commented by Julius Pompanius Laetus; RUTILIUS TAURUS PALLADIUS (fl.4th century A.D.) De re rustica. Edited by Franciscus Colucia, Georgius Merula and Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 20 November 1499.
A crisp copy. Fifth edition, a reprint from the 1496 edition published by Dionysius Bertochus. The conjunction of the Cato, Varro and Columella texts can be found from the Middle Ages, and their appearance together in a manuscript, now lost, was the basis for this edition and most of the 15th-century manuscripts. Together (with Palladius), they form the chief texts on agriculture and rural life, dealing with crops, vines, olives, bees, cattle-raising, and (in Cato) old customs and superstitions thought to aid in effective cultivation. HC(+Add) *14570; BMC VII 1089; Bod-inc S-126; BSB-Ink S-235; ISTC is00350000; Goff S-350.
Median folio (305 x 205mm). 244 leaves (of 244). First page of text printed in red and black, the 3 opening initials coloured in green and ?yellow, decorative woodcut initials (light marginal dampstain at fore edge on a few leaves). Contemporary blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards (restored, without clasps, rubbed). Provenance: Munich, Royal Library (stamps and ‘Duplum’ inscription).
A crisp copy. Fifth edition, a reprint from the 1496 edition published by Dionysius Bertochus. The conjunction of the Cato, Varro and Columella texts can be found from the Middle Ages, and their appearance together in a manuscript, now lost, was the basis for this edition and most of the 15th-century manuscripts. Together (with Palladius), they form the chief texts on agriculture and rural life, dealing with crops, vines, olives, bees, cattle-raising, and (in Cato) old customs and superstitions thought to aid in effective cultivation. HC(+Add) *14570; BMC VII 1089; Bod-inc S-126; BSB-Ink S-235; ISTC is00350000; Goff S-350.
Median folio (305 x 205mm). 244 leaves (of 244). First page of text printed in red and black, the 3 opening initials coloured in green and ?yellow, decorative woodcut initials (light marginal dampstain at fore edge on a few leaves). Contemporary blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards (restored, without clasps, rubbed). Provenance: Munich, Royal Library (stamps and ‘Duplum’ inscription).
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