Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, MS E 39

De Re Rustica Facsimile Edition

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The De Re Rustica (“On Rural Affairs”) manuscript in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana is a splendidly illuminated copy of a treatise on agriculture and farming, including soil management, tree cultivation, and beekeeping. Made in the fifteenth century, probably in Florence, it may have been commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV. This opening page features a historiated initial of the text’s author, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, with a full border in the Italian humanist white vine-stem style. Thirteen more historiated initials feature scenes of agricultural activity.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "De Re Rustica": De Re Rustica facsimile edition, published by Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2005

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Manuscript book description compiled by Dongwon Esther Kim.
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De Re Rustica

Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2005

  • Commentary (Italian) by Formica, Patrizia
  • Limited Edition: 530 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, De Re Rustica: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

14 illuminations printed on a special unalterable paper.

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