The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 86438a

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9995

Shelfmark:

86438a

Title:

Selections from De re rustica

Author:

Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus

Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 7 : paper ; 143 x 210 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century and bound after Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella's De cultu hortorum liber. [Padua: Dominicus Siliprandus, approximately 1475-1480] (RB 86438).
ff. 1-7 verso. Paper. Layout: 16(+6). 24 lines of verse. Watermark(s): Etoile of the general type of Briquet 6077, Palermo 1479 with sim. var. also Venice. Written in a hasty cursive humanistic hand, heading on f. 1 in an epigraphic display script.
Decoration: Opening initial, 4-line, in plain red; 2-line plain red initials, versals touched in red, headings lined through in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/26/2012.
The person who copied the Palladius text may also be the one who annotated the Columella; the red underscoring and the red touching of initials appear in both to be by the same person.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Agriculture

Horticulture

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862228

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52863/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens