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Du Mesnil, Nicole

La manière d'enter et planter arbres. Fol. 2: Cy
commence ung petit livre extrait par moy Nicole Du Mesnil, 
prins sur Palladius, Galien, Aristote et autres
maistres expers en la science d'enter, planter, nourrir
et garder frutz [sic], vignes, poires, pommes et autres
en pluseurs et diverses manières. [n.p., n.d.] 11 ff,
sign. A-B. (Bib. Nat. Paris)

----- [n.p., n.d.] 11 ff., sign. A-B. (Bib. Nat.
Paris)
Savastano, Ann. R. Staz. Sper. Agrumic, e
Fruttic. Acireale (1922) 5:92, 106, 111, mentions 
a little work entitled "La manie de enter 
plater en jardins plusieurs choses bien
estranges”, supposedly based on Crescenzi and
printed by Anthoine Verard at Paris shortly
after his French edition of Crescenzi in 1486.
Savastano says there were 6 eds. of this between
1500 and 1560, of which the first was certainly
and others probably printed at Paris, with exception 
of one at Lyons, feu Barnabe Chaussard.
This "opusculum" was revised by Du Mesnil and
had two further eds. On the strength of Savastano’s 
opinion we have assigned to Du Mesnil
only the undated entries credited to him by
Cat. Bib. Nat. and the section under his nane
in the "Quatre traictez" (1560). The original
"opusculum", although by an unknown hand, has
been referred to Crescenzi, and entered together 
with other fragments after his "Opus ruralium 
commodorum" or "Libro della agricoltura".
(MFW)

----- Traicté extraict par Nicolas du Mesnil, prins
sur les liures des maistres expers en la science d'enter,
planter, nourrir & garder fruictz, vignes, poires, pommes,
& autres, en plusieurs & diuerses manieres. (In: Quatre
traictez vtiles et delectables de 1’agriculture. Paris,
Charles l’Angelier, 1560) (Dept. Agr.; N. Y. Soc. Lib.)

----- (In: Quatre traictez utiles et delectables de
1'agriculture. Paris, Gilles Corrozet, 1560) (Bib.
Nat. Paris)
        