Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, De agricultura [Book I-Book XI, Chapter 11]

De agricultura [Book I-Book XI, Chapter 11]. Written in a semi-current humanistic script, 33 lines to a page. F. 1r Incipit liber Palladii Rutuli [sic] tauri emiliani Viri Illustris opus agriculture. Incipit titulus / libri primi. / De preceptis rei rustice. / ... 52v (End) ... Nunc plante cardui ponuntur quas cum ponemus radices earum / summas ferro resecamus. Ff. 53r-55r Receipts: technical receipts for making colours, household receipts, a few in Italian. On f. 55r two medical receipts, one 'Contra vertiginem' and the other regarding 'Litargia'. The text of De agricultura ends at Book XI, Chapter 11, line 8 of Cabaret-Dupaty's edition, Paris 1844, page 350.

Middle 15th century

1 volume 55 ll. folio. 30 x 28 cm. 19th cent. quarter morocco binding. First two leaves slightly frayed in the margins.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased at Sotheby's 2/3/1899, Lot 1334.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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On the fly-leaf: 'MS. of Palladius. The MSS. of the Latin Agricultural Writers are notoriously scarce and sought after. Henry [Joseph Thomas] Drury. Harroviae. 1818'. Phillipps MS. 3346. Sold at Sotheby's 23/3/1895, Lot 753.