Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De re rustica
Italy, probably Milan, 1469
MS M.139 fol. 31r

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Columella: Text, De Re Rustica, Book III (De Arboribus) -- Man, with bare legs, bends forward, grasping grain in field. In background is landscape with hills and trees. Scene in medallion in lower margin.
Margins and initial with bianchi girari (white vine) ornament.