A1r [Titlepage]. ‘Petri de Crescentiis civis Bononiensis in Commodum ruralium cum figuris libri duodecim.’
A2r Crescentiis, Petrus de: Ruralia commoda. ‘Prohemium'. [Dedicated to] Charles II of Anjou, King of Jerusalem and Sicily. Incipit: ‘[C]um ex virtute prudentie que inter bonum et malum caute discernit humanus informatur animus ad utilis et delectabilis cognitionem ...’ Explicit: ‘... In duodecimo compendiosa sit commemoratio de his omnibus que singulis mensibus in rure sunt agenda.’
A2v Crescentiis, Petrus de: Ruralia commoda. ‘Capitulum primum de locis habitabilibus eligendis, et de curiis domibus et his que habitationibus sunt in rure necessaria facienda. Et primo de cognitione bonitatis loci habitabilis in communi.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]oniam cultus ruris propter continuos civis labores precipue fortitudinem habitantium requirit ...’ b5v Explicit: ‘... Item aves avibus rapacibus domesticas et rhetibus diversis ac visco etcetera. | Gloria Deo.’ See C‑477; also Sorbelli, ‘Bibliografia', 322-4.
[*1r] [Table of contents]. ‘Registrum. | Incipit registrum duodecim librorum Petri de Crescentiis, aliqui dividuntur in capitula, alii vero secundum ordinem alphabeti, sic divisi in sequenti registro suo ordine patebunt.’
Imprint:
[Speier
Peter Drach
1490-5].
Folio.
According to Sheppard, the woodcuts appear slightly more worn than in the undated German edition.
Secundo folio: A3r [A]er secundum Avicennam est elementis generatorum
Collation:
A8 B–Q6 R8 S–Z a b6 [*4]. Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed. Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters. 313 woodcuts.
References:
Source: Bodleian; London, Wellcome Library
ISTC: ic00969000
GW 7825;
HCR 5826;
Goff C‑969;
BMC II 499;
Pr 1441;
Hillard 697; Oates 1126; Rhodes 639; Sack, Freiburg, 1191; Schramm XVI p. 14; Schreiber V 3788; Sheppard 1735.
LCN: 14422567
Copies:
C-482(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf b6.
Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf, possibly Dutch, with endpapers watermarked ‘I. and C. Honig'; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 270 × 200 × 28 mm.
Size of leaf: 260 × 183 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes; some translations of plant names into German. German inscription in a sixteenth-century hand on A1r.
Provenance: Andreas Ochs (fl. 1607); on A1r an inscription: ‘Sum Andreæ Ochs quondam Aulicj Sereniss. Ferdi[n]andi Archid. Austriæ A° 1607'.
‘Vienna 1819 (p. 61 n. 250) 17 fl' (note by Heber on front endleaf); purchased by Heber for £1. 10. 0, according to the price annotated in red ink in Heber's sale catalogue.
Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 5 (1835), lot 1391, sold for £0. 12. 0.
Purchased for £0. 18. 0 according to Books Purchased (1835), 8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.42.
