De Re Rustica by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella

ALTERNATIVE TITLES
De Re Rustica; De Re Rustica di Lucio Giunio Moderato Columella; De Re Rustica by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella; De Re Rustica par Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella.
CURRENT LOCATION
Italy, Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Ms. E 39.
FACSIMILE EDITION
Columella, De Re Rustica: Editalia (Rome, 2005). Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document: the facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document; the binding might not correspond to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment. Limited edition: 530 copies. Commentary: Italian. Slipcase.
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De Re Rustica by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella

ALTERNATIVE TITLES
De Re Rustica; De Re Rustica di Lucio Giunio Moderato Columella; De Re Rustica by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella; De Re Rustica par Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella.
CURRENT LOCATION
Italy, Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Ms. E 39.
FACSIMILE EDITION
Columella, De Re Rustica: Editalia (Rome, 2005). Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document: the facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document; the binding might not correspond to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment. Limited edition: 530 copies. Commentary: Italian. Slipcase.
Copyright photos: Editalia

Category:
FEATURES – Codex on parchment, 215 x 285, 438 pp.
ORIGIN – Italy: Florence.
CHRONOLOGY – First half of the 15th century.
PATRONAGE AND OWNERS – The manuscript was commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV.
GENRE – Treatises / Secular books; Medicine / Botany.
CONTENTS – De re rustica and De arboribus, both works by the Roman writer Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, who lived in the first century A.D. The De re rustica is one of the major sources we have today on Roman agriculture. De arboribus is a short treatise on trees.
LANGUAGE – Latin.
SCRIPT – Humanist minuscule.
STYLE – Renaissance.

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