Manuscript On Vellum Of Opus Agriculturae 112 Leaves The First Blank Small 4to 155 X 115 Mm Single

by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius

$95,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

19th-cent. russia, sides panelled in gilt & blind, gilt arms in center of the Pelham-Clinton family. Italy, perhaps Tuscany: early 15th century. A fine manuscript, from the celebrated library of the dukes of Newcastle in Clumber, of this important fourth-century Roman treatise on agriculture. It enjoyed wide popularity in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, owing to its clear arrangement, with the farming and gardening tasks subdivided according to

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