AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS. original: "ΓΕΩΠΟΝΙΚΑ" (Geoponica). A 10th-century collection of agricultural lore.

OF AGRICULTURAL MATTERS,

OR

On Rural Affairs,

TWENTY BOOKS.

Collected by CASSIANUS BASSUS, the Scholastic. Bassus was a 6th-century jurist who compiled earlier Greek agricultural writings.

FORMERLY

attributed by some to the 7th CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENNETUS. Constantine VII (905–959 AD) was a Byzantine Emperor who commissioned the compilation of this work.

IN GREEK & LATIN.

Circular library stamp in black ink, reading "NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VICTOR EMMANUEL III, ROME" around a central heraldic shield.

PETER er NEEDHAM, Master of Arts,

Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge,

compared the Greek text with manuscripts, and added the PREFACE,

LITTLE NOTES, & INDEXES.

AT CAMBRIDGE:

FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

At the expense of A. & J. CHURCHILL, Booksellers

of London. 1704.