Constantini Caesaris selectarum praeceptionum de agricultura libri viginti
By: Iano Cornario ... interprete
Series: Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Apud Seb. Gryphium
Published: 1541
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 349
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).

Dedication dated 15 Feb. 1537.

Includes index.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00029.0-5.

Library stamps on title page, including "Bibliotheque Sorbonne."