Constantini Caesaris selectarum praeceptionum, de agricultura libri viginti / Jano Cornario interprete.

Geoponica. n 88277275

Basileae : [Froben], 1538.

8 unnumbered pages, 389, that is, 390 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Colophon: Basileae ex officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium. An. M.D.XXXVIII.

Woodcut Froben device on t.p. and verso of colophon leaf.

Woodcut initials.

P. [390] misnumbered 389.

Compiled at the request of the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (912-945), to whom the work was formerly ascribed. Based mainly on a 6th or 7th century compilation by Cassianus Bassus, who borrowed from two earlier writers, Anatolius Vindanius or Vindonius, of Berytus, and Didymus, of Alexandria (both of the 4th or 5th century)

Originally written in Greek, but the editio princeps of the Greek text did not appear until the year after this ed.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Maggs. Note: Binding: 19th cent. brown morocco, inside gilt dentelles.