LATIN WRITERS ON AGRICULTURE- 419 



APPENDIX I. 



CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF AGRICULTURAL WRITERS DOWN 



TO 1700. 



BEFORE THE INVENTION OF PRINTING 



Latin Writers on Agriculture. — Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius. M. 

 Catonis Prisci de Re Rustica liber ; JMarcii Terentii Varronis Rerum 

 Rusticarum, libri i.-iii. ; Lutii Junii Moderati Columelloe Rei Rusticoe 

 Liber Primus — Tertius — Decimus, ed. G. Merula. Palladii Rutilii 

 ^miliani de Re Rustica liber primus-liber xiii., ed. F. Colucia. Venice 

 (1470 ?). 1472. 



[Cato, commonly called the Censor, died b.c. 149. Varro flourished in the 

 last century before Christ. Columella, whose agricultural writings are 

 the most useful of the four Latin writers, flourished in the flrst century of 

 the Christian era. He also wrote a treatise, De Arboribus. Palladius, who 

 seems to have written in the fourth century a.d., borrows largely from 

 Columella. The above-mentioned book is the first printed edition of any 

 part of the Roman writers on Agriculture, though many naanuscripts probably 

 existed in the libraries of Enghsh monasteries. Frequent editions were subse- 

 quently published abroad, but none apparently in England. 



Translations were also printed abroad, e.g. of Columella into Italian by 

 Pietro Lauro (1544), and into French by Charles Cotereau (1555). But none 

 seems to have been printed in England till 1725, when Richard Bradley, F.R.S., 

 Professor of Botany in the Universitj^ of Cambridge, published his Survey of 

 Ancient Husbandry and Gardening collected from Cato, Varro, Columella, etc. 

 A manuscript translation of Palladius into English verse belonging to the 

 fifteenth century (1420) was edited by Messrs. Lodge and Herrtage, under the 

 title of Palladius on Hoabondrie for the Early English Text Society, 1873 

 and 1879.] 



Thirteenth Century Manuscripts. — Walter of Henley's Husbandry. Together 

 with an anonymous Husbandry, Seneschaucie, and Robert Grosseteste's 

 Rules. (Ed. Ehzabeth Lamond. Royal Historical Society, 1890.) 



[It is stated by Mr. Donald M'Donald {Agricultural Writers, 1200 to 

 1800 (1908), p. 11) that Walter of Henley's Husbandry was reproduced in 

 James Bellot's Booke of Thrifte, 1589. The book does not appear in the 

 British Museimi Catalogue. But the Library contains another work by 

 James BeUot of Caen, entitled Le Jardin de Vertu, etc. (1581), containing 

 extracts in French and English from the " best and wisest books."] 



Gardiner (Mayster Ion). 



The Feate of Gardening. 



[Edited from the original fifteenth century manuscript by the Hon. 

 Alicia Amherst (Mrs. Evelyn Cecil), Archoeologia, vol. liv.] 



