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tic00974000

Text-inc Id:
tic00974000
Bod-inc Id:
C-484
Headings:
Crescentiis, Petrus de Ruralia commoda [Italian] Il libro della agricultura. Incomplete.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r Crescentiis, Petrus de: ‘Prohemio'. Addressed to Charles II [of Anjou], King of Jerusalem and Sicily. Incipit: ‘[A]llo exciellentissimo principe . . . Concio sia cosa che io considerassi . . .’
  2. a1r Crescentiis, Petrus de: Ruralia commoda [Italian]: Il libro della agricultura. Incipit: ‘[C]oncio sia cosa che per la uirtu della prudentia . . .’ Trattato della agricoltura, ed. de' Rossi. See Sorbelli, ‘Bibliografia', 331-2.
  3. s6v
  4. [Colophon.]
  5. A1r
  6. [Table.]
Imprint:
Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 17 Feb. 1490. Folio.
Collation:
a–r8 s6 A4. Leaf a2 signed ai, etc. On a1r a woodcut showing the author writing in front of the dedicatee.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00974000 GW 7827; HC (+ Addenda) 5838; Goff C‑974; BMC VII 1033; Pr 7128; BSB‑Ink C‑700; Sander 2234; Sheppard 5894. LCN: 14422649
Copies:
  1. C-484(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1, and gathering A containing the table. Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter green morocco. Size: 303 × 210 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 297 × 199 mm. On a2r a five-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Epigraphic initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Anonymous sale (London: Hodgson, 22 Oct. 1902), lot 820. Purchased in 1902. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I20.1490.1.