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Piero Crescientio De agricultura uulgare.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233-approximately 1320.
- Standardized Title:
- Ruralia commoda. Italian
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Gardening--Early works to 1800.
- Gardening.
- Penn Provenance:
- Toranzano(?), Giaco[mo] (autograph, 1738)
- Physical Description:
- 235, that is, 234 leaves, 12 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 23 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Piero Crescientio De agricultura vulgare
- De agricultura uulgare
- De agricultura vulgare
- Place of Publication:
- Impressum Venetiis : [publisher not identified], die sexto me[n]sis Septe[m]bris anno d[omi]ni, MDXI [1511]
- Notes:
- Translation into Italian of: Ruralia commoda.
- Imprint place and date from colophon.
- Printed by Giovanni Rosso and Bernardinus Vercellensis. Cf. BM STC Italian.
- A repetition of text in bk. 6, chapter vi, was corrected by resetting part of leaf 125r & shifting lines through 126r; this copy has the correction; leaf 125r ends "pregnia[n]ti &". Cf. Mortimer.
- With a full page woodcut illustration on verso of leaf [1].
- Signatures: a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-D⁸.
- Leaf number 201 omitted in sequence.
- Printed in double columns.
- Woodcut ill. and initials.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- Cited in:
- Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 141
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, 203
- Marshall, R.G. STC Italian I, p. 476
- NUC pre-1956 127, p. 118
- OCLC:
- 40352204
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