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tis00347000

Text-inc Id:
tis00347000
Bod-inc Id:
S-123
Headings:
Scriptores Rei Rusticae Scriptores rei rusticae (ed. by M. B., after Georgius Merula and Franciscus Colucia).
Analysis of content:
  1. A1v [Merula] Alexandrinus, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Priolus. Botfield 145-6.
  2. A2r [Merula Alexandrinus, Georgius]: Enarrationes uocum priscarum [in libris de re rustica]. ‘Ennarrationes breuissimae priscarum uocum'.’ Incipit: ‘Oletum consitus olea locus . . .’ Explicit: sestertius dupondius et semis’ It includes excerpts from Cato, Varro, and Columella.
  3. b2r [Merula] Alexandrinus, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Iustinianus. Botfield 146-8.
  4. b3v [List of contents for Cato.]
  5. b6r Cato, Marcus [Porcius]: De agri cultura. Edited by Georgius Merula, as stated in his letter to Bernardus Justinianus. ‘De re rustica'.’ Cato Agr.
  6. d7v [List of contents for Varro.]
  7. e1r Varro, Marcus Terentius: Res rusticae [addressed to] his wife Fundania. Edited by Georgius Merula, as stated in his letter to Bernardus Justinianus. ‘Rerum rusticarum liber'.’ Var. R.
  8. i5v [First colophon.]
  9. K2r [List of contents for Columella.]
  10. K6r Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus: De re rustica. Edited by Georgius Merula, as stated in his letter to Bernardus Justinianus. Col.
  11. bb5v [Second colophon.]
  12. bb6r [Merula] Alexandrinus, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Georgius. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Philelphus quo primum magistro ad litteras Mediolani sum usus . . .’
  13. bb9r [List of contents for Palladius.] A table of ‘tituli' precedes each book.
  14. bb9r Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus: Opus agriculturae. Edited by Franciscus Colucia, as stated in his letter to Nicolaus Jenson (S‑122). ‘De re rustica'.’ Pall. Op. Agr.
  15. hh10r [Third colophon.]
  16. hh10r M. B.: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus [de Bruschis] Bottonus. Incipit: ‘[E]tsi nihil gratius nihilque iucundius . . .’ It states that the printer engaged M. B. as editor of the entire volume. The letter reproduces, with little alteration or additions that of Franciscus Colucia to Jenson (S‑122).
  17. hh10v [M. B.?: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Priscorum quicunque studet monumenta doceri | Terrarum et cultus arma deosque simul'; 4 elegiac distichs.
Imprint:
Reggio Emilia: Bartholomaeus de Bruschis, Bottonus, 1482; 5 June 1482. Folio.
Collation:
A6 a8 b c10 d8 e–g10 h8 i6 K l10 m–z & [con] [rum] aa8 bb12 cc dd8 ee–hh10.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00347000 HC *14565; Goff S‑347; BMC VII 1086; Pr 7251; BSB‑Ink S‑233; CIBN S‑175; Rhodes 1599; Sack, Freiburg, 3195; Sheppard 6009. LCN: 12958266, 14029118
Copies:
  1. S-123(1) First copy Wanting the last leaf hh10 containing the register; also the blank leaves b1, i6, and k1. Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled red morocco, with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark. Size: 313 × 235 × 60 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 208 mm. ‘78' in brown ink, washed, on A1r. Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, now washed, in a contemporary humanist hand in brown ink. ‘759' and ‘No. 230' in brown ink on the rear endleaf. Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part II, lot 2189; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Thomas Payne for Fl. 65. Purchased [through Payne?] for £5. 13. 6: see Books Purchased (1790), 7. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 3.32.
  2. S-123(2) Second copy Wanting sheet r3.6. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) parchment over pasteboards; manuscript titles at the head of the spine in brown ink. Sprinkled green- and red-edged leaves. Size: 334 × 220 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 325 × 210 mm. Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, providing some corrections to the signatures, pointing hands, and numbering the leaves in arabic numerals (now mostly cropped), in a sixteenth-century hand in brown ink, probably Medici's. Provenance: Josephus Antonius Medici [ ] (sixteenth century); inscription on A1r: ‘Ex libris Josephi Antonii Medici Pat[ ]erii [deleted] Montiscalerii'. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; book-plate; on the front endleaf £3. 3. 0, replaced by £2. 10. 0. Transferred to the Bodleian Library by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893. Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: 95.E.8; F. 4. a. 1; 95.E; 96.B; H.a.630. SHELFMARK: RR.x.331 [RSL].
15th Century Booktrade University of Oxford European Research Council Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Incunabula Short Title Catalogue