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Ruralia commoda c.1490-95
29.1 x 21.2 x 4.5 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1055361

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95

Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1233-c. 1320)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis c.1490-95








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The Ruralia commoda is considered the most important agricultural treatise of the Middle Ages. It was written in the early fourteenth century by the Bolognese jurist Pietro de Crescenzi, who based his work on ancient and contemporary sources as well as his personal experience. The practical and encyclopedic nature of his “manual” was to benefit its main audience, the emerging urban bourgeoisie, by covering husbandry, irrigation, enology, gardening, hunting, fishing while also describing plants and animals.
The success of his work is suggested by the fact that it was soon translated into several European vernaculars, and printed in nineteen different editions in the fifteenth century alone. This copy was printed by Peter Drach in Speyer, an edition characterised by fine woodcut illustrations.
Binding description
Ninteenth-century armorial binding in brown pigskin over wooden boards. Covers decorated with blind fillets and rolls to form a border and panel with floral tools at the outer corners; blind-stamped coat of arms with Charles Porcher Lang's initials and motto "virtuti fortuna comes"; two metal clasps on long fore-edge. Spine with three double cords, decorated with blind-stamped tools and titling. Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of plain paper.Provenance
Acquired by Prince Albert for his personal library. Previously in the collection of Charles Porcher Lang (1805-1842), sold in 1843 by Evans.
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Creator(s)
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Measurements
29.1 x 21.2 x 4.5 cm (book measurement (conservation))
Markings
annotation: signposts and underlining in a ?sixteenth-century hand using brown and red ink [ff.2r, 12v, 19v, 41v-45r, 49r, 50r, 64v -- 14v, 15r, 154r in red]
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Other number(s)
ISTC : Incunabula Short Title Catalogue – ISTC ic00969000Alternative title(s)
Ruralia commoda / Petrus de Crescentiis.
Petri de crescentis civis Bononiensis in commodum ruralium cum figuris libri duodecim.
Place of Production
Speyer [Germany]