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Petrus de Crescentius, Ruralia commoda, 1471

Crescenzi, Pietro de', ca. 1233-ca. 1320.1471

University of Reading Special Collections

University of Reading Special Collections
Reading, United Kingdom

This book is the oldest printed book in the rare book collections at Special Collections, and one of twelve incunables in the collections. It is an early agricultural manual, and is said by some to have been the most important original medieval work on agriculture, husbandry and horticulture.

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