32. [Scriptores rei rusticate] [Cato. Varro. Columella. Palladius]

Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September 1496.

Edited by Philippus Beroaldus, after Merula and Colucia

Description

Paper. [272] l., the last blank; 305 x 205 mm (fol.). Roman and Greek type. F.1a Title-page: Opera Agricolationum: Columellae: Varronis: Catonisq;: necnon Palladii: cum excriptionibus & commeta riis D. Philippi Beroaldi within triangular cut on prelim. page. Some repairs to first few leaves. General colophon: Opera agricolationum: Columellae: Varronis: Catonisq: necnon Palladii: cum excriptionibus D. Phillippi Beroaldi: & cometariisque. Impressa Regii impensis Dioysii Bertochi Regien. Impante diuo Hercule Este. MCCCCLXXXXVI. Xiii. Kalen. Octobris. Woodcut initials. Annotated throughout.

Binding

Plain calf binding (scuffed). Spine title reads: Rei Rustic/ Scriptor/ Regii/ 1496.

Printer

The first actual printing in Reggio Emilia (Italy) was by Bartholomaeus and Laurentius de Bruschis (Bottonus) with an issue of Perottus, Rudimenta grammaticae, 29 July 1480. Dionysius Bertochus, who also operated in Venice about 1494, appears at Reggio, printing the second of three editions of the Latin writers on husbandry, i.e. this particular book, on 18 September 1496. During these latter years, Bertochus was at Scandiano, assisting his associate Peregrinus de Pasqualibus. He later moved to Modena, and then travelled back to Reggio Emilia. See item no. 23.

Provenance

1. Christopher Tower, Esq., Weald Hall 2. Canon William Ardene Shoults 3. Selwyn College; Otago University Library

Reference

HC 14569*; BMC VII 1090; Goff S349; Kaplan 427; ISTC is00349000

Illustrations

Triangular title-page, Catonis Enarrationes Brevissimae (f.2a; aaii), first page of Palladius's work with initial, binding, colophon, bookplate.