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.
Johann August Ernesti (1707-1781)
Category
Books
Date
1773 - 1774
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3130488
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., [7] leaves of plates (most folded) . ill.. . 4to.. Pencil prices on v.1 endpapers '2v. 2.12.6' & '2v. 8/6'. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf, edges red, 5 raised bands, spine gilt-tooled & lettered on red & black labels 'Gesneri Scriptores rei rusticae'. Front board of v.1 loose.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Johann August Ernesti (1707-1781) Quintus Gargilius Martialis (fl.3rd century) Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius Marcus Terentius Varro (116 – 27 BC) Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl.late 4th century) Cato, Marcus Porcius, the Censor Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (4-c.70). Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761)