Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De re rustica
Italy, probably Milan, 1469
MS M.139 fol. 56v

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Columella: Text, De Re Rustica, Book V -- Man, bending forward and holding spade in both hands, digs in ground amid plants. Landscape with hills and trees in background. Scene in medallion in lower margin.
Margins and initial with bianchi girari (white vine) ornament.