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Constantini Caesaris selectarum praeceptionum de agricultura libri uiginti /

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Uniform Title:Geoponica.
Other Authors: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East, 905-959, Cassianus Bassus, Cornarius, Janus, 1500-1558
Format: eBook
Language:Latin
Published: Basileae : Froben, 1540.
Series:Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:
Agriculture > Early works to 1800.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Compiled by an unknown writer at the request of the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, to whom the work was formerly ascribed. Based mainly on a collection made in the 6th or 7th century 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).
"Addito indice uberrimo."
Dedication dated 15 Feb. 1537.
Colophon: Basileæ per Hieronymu[m] Frobenium & Nic. Episcopium MDXL mense Martio.
Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
Goldsmiths'-Kress number 00028.
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Physical Description:385 pages, 14 unnumbered pages