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• Uniform Title:Scriptores rei rusticae. 1472.
  
• Title:Marci Catonis Prisci de re rustica liber.
  
• Publication:[Venice] : [Nicolaus Jenson], [1472].
  
• Physical Description:[302] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Zi +4086
    
  • Status:No information available 

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Leaf Collection no. 0072
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN Zi +4086: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume. Imperfect: fol. 15, blank, wanting; fol. 24 wanting and supplied by the same fol. from the edition printed by Bartholomaeus de Bruschis, Bottonus, in Reggio d'Emilia, 1482; fol. 240-241 (Merula's letter to Dominicus Georgius) wanting.
  BAC Leaf Collection no. 0072: Imperfect: one leaf of text, caput. xxvi-xxviii. With small initials added in red and blue. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
  
• Notes:Edited by Georgius Merula (Cato, Varro and Columella) and Franciscus Colucia (Palladius), this collection of texts is known by its conventional title "Scriptores rei rusticae".
  Incipit on leaf [pi1] verso: Georgius Alexandrinus Petro Priolo. M. filio. S. Priscas dictio[n]es de tribus rei rusticae scriptoribus a[n]notatas ...
  First gathering of 14 leaves contains letter addressed to Petrus Priolus and 'Enarrationes vocum priscarum in libris De re rustica', both by Georgius Merula.
  Editio princeps.
  Imprint from ISTC.
  First colophon on leaf [c7] recto: Marci Prisci Catonis qui hominum summus in omni usu fuit de re rustica liber unus quem absolutum nec imperfectum Plinio auctore collegimus cura et artificio Nicolai Ienson Gallici impressus Venetiis. .M.CCCC.LXXII.
  Second colophon on leaf [h5] verso: Marci Terentii Varronis qui rem rusticam expoliuit libri tres. Hos dilgenter atque uenuste impressit Nicolaus Ienson Gallicus genere Venetiis. .M.CCCC.LXXII.
  Third colophon on leaf [D5] verso: Lucii Iunii Moderati Columellae rerum rusticarum libri opera et impensa Nicolai Ienson Gallici impressi Venetiis Nicolao Throno duce inuictissimo .M.CCCC.LXXII.
  Fourth colophon on leaf [K10] recto, which reads in full: Palladii Rutilii Tauri Aemiliani uiri illustris de re rustica libri impressi Venetiis opera et impensa Nicolai Ienson Gallici .M.CCCC.LXXII. Nicolao Throno duce Venetiarum inclyto.
  Types: 115 R; 115 Gk.
  
• Variant and related titles:Beginning of text on leaf [pi1] verso : Georgius Alexandrinus Petro Priolo. M. filio. S. Priscas dictiones de tribus rei rusticae scriptoribus annotatas
  
• Format:Book
• References:Incunabula short title catalogue, is00346000
  Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M41065
  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-346
  Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 14564* (variant placement of some quires)
  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum V, p. 173 (IB. 19660, with blank leaves)
  
• Subjects:Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
  Agriculture--Ouvrages avant 1800.
  Agriculture.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Incunabula in Yale Library.
  Italy. Venice. Jenson, Nicolas. 1472.
  Werther, Frederick, 1881---Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Early works.
  Incunabula.
  Fragments (object portions)
  
• Also listed under:Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C. De agri cultura.
  Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres.
  Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. De re rustica.
  Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus. De re rustica.
  Merula, Giorgio, -1494, editor.
  Colucia, Francesco, editor.
  Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, printer.
  Italy--Venice.