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Libri de re rvstica : M. Catonis Lib. I. M. Terrentii Varronis Lib. III. L. Ivnii Moderati Colvmellae Lib. XII. Eiusdem De arboribus liber, separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit, ostenditur in epistola ad lectorem. Palladii Lib. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus, simulq[ue] de umbris & horis, quae apud Palladium, in alia epistola ad lectorem. Georgii Alexandrini Enarrationes priscarum dictionum, quae in his libris Catonis, Varronis, Colummelae

Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C. De agri cultura, Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. De re rustica, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. De arboribus, Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus. De re rustica · 1514 · Venetiis : In aedibvs Aldi et Andreae soceri · 8 pictures

This is a 1514 Venetian printing of Roman agricultural writers Cato, Varro, Columella and Palladius, issued by the Aldine press for scholars and readers of classical farming texts. The pictures are small diagrams of field plots in the margins of the text: a half-circle, a circle split by a line, and a right triangle, each labelled with dimensions and areas in Roman numerals and numbers, drawn in plain black line on cream paper, offering a designer simple geometric schematics of measured land.

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