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SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Opera agricolationum: Columellae: Varronis: Catonisque: nec non Palladii... Edited by Philippo Beroaldo (1453-1505). [Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 20 November 1499].
2o (312 x 211 mm). aa10 a-s8 t u6 x-z & A-C8 D6. 244 leaves, unfoliated. 45 lines and head-line. Types: 104 R.; 80 R., commentaries on Columella, lib. XI, and Palladius, lib. XIV Greek. Printed capitals. Initial space with guide letter on D1r, a1 printed in red and black. (Light browning and staining at beginning and end, minor worming to first few leaves, tear in blank margin of D6.) Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, remains of clasps (rebacked).
Provenance: Early ownership inscriptions (title); Andr Simon (bookplate).
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, once in S. Marco but 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.
BMC VII, p. 1089; Goff S-350; HC *14570; Wellcome 5895; Norman 1920.
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Provenance: Early ownership inscriptions (title); Andr Simon (bookplate).
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, once in S. Marco but 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.
BMC VII, p. 1089; Goff S-350; HC *14570; Wellcome 5895; Norman 1920.