Manoscritti: De re rustica (1460)

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Author/Artist: Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus.
*Title: De re rustica.
*Published/Created: Italy, probably Milan, 1469.
Description: 185 leaves (1 column, 29 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 190 mm

Notes: Ms. agricultural treatise; written and illuminated in Italy, probably Milan, in 1469.
Decoration: 1 16-line miniature; 18 historiated medallions; 3 decorated initials; 1 page with full bianchi girari border; 13 pages with headpiece, tailpiece, and left border in bianchi girari.
Scribe: Henriecus Roffinus de Murialdo; who signed and dated the manuscript on fol. 184v: Henriecus Roffinus de Murialdo scripsit MCCCClxviiij die x septembris.
Artist: attributed to a Milanese artist, one of two hands in Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.454; this artist also responsible for the illustration in Bibliothèqe nationale. MS Latin 4586.

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Heraldry, Italian: Caretto -- Escutcheon with arms of Caretto (or five bends dexter gules), surmounted by helm, with drape supported by two angels, each with one arm raised to wings of crowned eagle, atop the helm. The escutcheon is on a cart drawn by two leashed lions. All enclosed in acanthus-leaf frame interspersed with chain.


rabbit in fenced enclosure at left. (impresa carrettesca?)