Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De re rustica
Italy, probably Milan, 1469
MS M.139 fol. 83v

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Columella: Text, De Re Rustica, Book VII -- Man, wearing hat and apron, tends bleeding wound in left flank of bridled horse. Scene in courtyard enclosed by barn (?) and wall. Scene in medallion in lower margin.
Margins and initial with bianchi girari (white vine) ornament.