Incipit liber ruralium co[m]modo-rum a Petro de crescentiis ciue Bononiensi ad honore[m] dei o[mn]ipotentis & serenissimi regis kraoli [sic] [com]pilatus..
Crescenzi, Pietro de',approximately 1233-approximately 1320.
Johann,of Paderborn,active 1473-1496,printer.
[Louvain] : Impressum e[st]. in domo Iohannis de Westfalia,
[approximately 1486-1487]
A1 blank, Crescentiis, Petrus de. [Letter to] Aimericus de Placentia, a2r; Rubricae, a2r-6r; Crescentiis, Petrus de. Ruralia commoda, a6r-[con]6r; colophon, [con]6r (verso blank).
Dated on paper evidence by WILC (Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries). Dated about 1484-87 by Hellinga, W. & L. The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries.
Title from caption, a2 recto, column 2.
Colophon, [con]8 verso: Presens opus ruralium co[m]modorum Petri de cresce[n]tiis hoc industrioso caracterisandi stilo ad cuncto[rum] utilitatem omnipotentis dei suffra-gio nouissime impressum e[st]. in domo Iohannis de westfalia. Alma ac florentissima in vniuersitate Louanie[n]si.
Signatures: a-n⁸ o⁶ p-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁶.
With an initial blank leaf.
Initials supplied in red.
BM 15th cent.,
BN catalogue des incunables,
Bod-inc
Campbell
GW
Goff
Hain-Copinger
ISTC
Oates
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique,
Thienen & Goldfinch. Incunabula printed in the Low Countries,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Advocates Library ex libris dated 1800 on front flyleaf.
18th-century calf with blind rolled double fillet border on front and back boards, spine with five raised bands forming five gilt tooled (gilt almost entirely lost) compartments and one compartment with title, blind rolled board edges and red speckled edges.
Agriculture
Gardening
Belgium Louvain.