Geōponika = De re rustica selectorum libri XX : Graeci, Constantino quidem Caesari nuncupati, ac iam non libris, sed thesauris annumerandi / Io. Alexandri Brassicani opera in lucem editi ; vnà cum rerum, quae in hisce tractantur, diligentissimo indice ; Item, Aristotelis De plantis libri duo Graeci, nuper ad interitu liberati, ac studiosorum usui hac primum editione restituti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Cassianus Bassus, Scholasticus

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East, 905-959.

Grynäus, Simon, 1493-1541.

Winter, Robert, -approximately 1553, printer.

Brassicanus, Joannes Alexander, 1500-1539.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Geoponica.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Viticulture--Early works to 1800.

Viticulture.

Penn Provenance:

Mapelli, Paulus (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Biblioteca Terzi (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages, 551 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

De re rustica selectorum libri XX

Fingerprint:

· uso- tua- *,** **** (3) 1539 (G)

Place of Publication:

Etypōthē en Basileia : Analōmasi Robertou tou Cheimerinou [that is, Robert Winter], [1539]

Notes:

"Geoponika" in title transliterated from Greek characters. Printer and date of printing transliterated from Greek characters in colophon: Etypōthē en Basileia, analōmasi Robertou tou Cheimerinou, ... [alpha] [phi] [lambda] theta] Mounichionōs mēnōs [Apri/May 1539]

Printer's device on verso of final leaf identifed in Heitz's "Basler büchermarken bis zum Anfang des 17. jahrhunderts" as no. 166. Device depicts the goddess Athena and her emblems as she stands between two olive trees, armed with a sword, a spear, and her shield (emblazoned with the gorgoneion) and accompanied by an owl.

Aristotle's authorship of "De plantis" considered spurious. Work is often attributed to Nicholas of Damascus.

Work is a compilation by an unknown writer at the request of the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (912-945). It was based mainly on a 6th or 7th century compilation by Cassianus Bassus, borrowing from various sources. It is sometimes misattributed to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus as well as to Cassianus Bassus.

First word of title transliterated from Greek characters.

Parallel title and preliminaries in Latin; text in Greek only.

Preliminary dedication by Simon Grynaeus.

Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]⁸ a-z⁸ A-L⁸ M⁴.

Woodcut initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy with all instances of Grynaeus's name in preface having been effaced.

Culture Class Collection copy in full laced case parchment binding; remains of ties.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed: Pauli Mapelli et amico[rum] lib. [...]

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate with shelfmark of Biblioteca Terzi.

Cited in:

Adams G448

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, G119

Contains:

Nicolaus, of Damascus. De plantis. Latin.

OCLC:

51229482