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De re rustica
Italy, probably Milan, 1469
MS M.139 fol. 141r

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Columella: Text, De Re Rustica, Book XII -- Man, wearing hat, sits on log, holding shepherd's pedum in right hand, before plant growing from tree stump. Behind him is building. Landscape with trees and hills in background. Scene in medallion in lower margin.
Margins and initial with bianchi girari (white vine) ornament.



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