Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De re rustica
Italy, probably Milan, 1469
MS M.139 fol. 122r

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Columella: Text, De Re Rustica, Book X -- Four beehives, with bees flying around them, are on table beneath shed. To right is building with open door. Hills and trees in background. Scene in medallion in lower margin.
Margins and initial with bianchi girari (white vine) ornament.