Cynegetica
Subtitle: tratado de caza y pesca, Cod. Gr. Z.479 (=881)
Contributors: Biblioteca nazionale marciana; Eleuteri, Paolo
Publisher: Patrimonio Ediciones
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Valencia, Spain]
Language: grc
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9788495061027
Subjects: Byzantine Illumination of books and manuscripts; Facsimiles; Byzantine Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern); Hunting; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Oppia nus; Tratado de caza y pesca; Tratado de caza.
Notes: Title from publisher's "Testimonio Notarial" mounted on recto of penultimate leaf.

Limited numbered ed. of 999.

Facsimile of an 11th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript of a text originating in 3rd cent. Greece: a didactic poem on the techniques of hunting with dogs, written by Oppian of Apamea (Syria) and dedicated to the Emperor Caracalla. The original manuscript is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice.

Facsimile is bound in tooled leather covered boards with marbled end papers. Facsimiles of library shelf marks affixed to front pastedown.

Commentary volume, issued with the facsimile, has title: Tratado de caza. Valencia, España : Patrimonio Ediciones, 2003