Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini Cato, Varro, Columella Palladius : quibus nunc accedit Vegetius De mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum / cum editionibus prope omnibus et mss. pluribus collati adiectae notae virorum clariss. integrae tum editae tum ineditae et lexicon rei rusticae curante Io. Matthia Gesnero eloqu. et poes. p.p. Goetting.
Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761)
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
Leipzig
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3030690
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 4804. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with fleur-de-lys stamps in four panels, and gilt title on brown goatskin label and gilt title lettered directly onto spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761), editor Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), author Marcus Terentius Varro (116 – 27 BC), author Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (4-c.70)., author Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, author Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl.late 4th century) , author Quintus Gargilius Martialis (fl.3rd century), author Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733), artist and engraver