Libri de re rustica. M. Catonis lib. I. M. Terentii Varronis lib. III. L. Iunii Moderati Columellae lib. XII. Eiusdem de arboribus liber separatus ad alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit: ostenditur in epistola ad lectorum. Palladii lib. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus: simulq[ue] de umbris, & horis, quae apud Palladium, in alia epistola ad lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum dictionum, quae in his libris Catonis: Varronis: Columellae.
Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1514
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3083514
Summary
Bibliographic description
[34], 308 leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 4to. Running number: 6843. Manuscript decoration: initials supplied in red and blue; paragraph marks up to leaf Q3v in alternating red and blue; ruled in red up to leaf Q3v. Provenance: in the library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Twentieth-century pencil inscription (possibly by Cecil Clarabut, the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Lothian". Manuscript code in black ink on front pasetdown: "p-p". Manuscript scribble and crossing-out on front pastedown. Manuscript inscriptions in black ink on rear pastedown: number (crossed-out, illegible), "hoort ous"[?], and price "30lt" [i.e. 30 livres tournois]. Binding: early sixteenth-century Parisian gold-tooled goatskin binding; full brown goatskin over pasteboards; sewn onto four recessed sewing supports; smooth spine; outer border of a roll-like frame of repeated floral tool between single fillets, inside of which a single fillet frame forms a large panel filled with a pattern of interlacing strapwork filled with dots, curved lines and a variety of arabesque and fleuron tools; originally with two pairs of ties on fore-edge of boards, now missing; board edges with alternating single fillet and diagonal hatches; gold-tooled spine with three narrow bands of a double floral entwining roll between double fillets and two large panels filled with curved lines and arabesque tools, the upper panel covered with gilt title label of brown goatskin reading 'AUCTORES DE RE RUSTICA AP: ALDUM. 1514.'; gauffered gilt bookblock edges with an ungilded floral pattern; endbands in green and red. Lower fore-edge corner of front board and foot of spine repaired in calfskin; pencil note on front pastedown in Cecil Clarabut's hand: "Repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
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 Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515), editor Georgius Merula (1430/1-1494), editor Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) , licencer Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer