Constantini Caesaris selectarum praeceptionum de agricultura libri uiginti
By: Iano Cornario ... interprete
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 28; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Froben
Published: 1540
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Agriculture; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Geoponica Latin
Notes: 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.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00028.

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 28.