Shelfmark
Ff.5.16
Author
Uniform title
[De architectura. 1543]
Title
M. Vitruuij, uiri suae professionis peritissimi, De architectura libri decem, ad Augustum Cæsarem accuratiss. conscripti: & nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, atq[ue] hinc inde schematibus non iniucundis exornati. Adiecimus etiam propter argumenti conformitatem, Sexti Iulij Frontini De aquaeductibus urbis Romae, libellum. Item ex libro Nicolai Cusani Card. De staticis experimentis, fragmentum. Cum indice copiosissimo, & dispositione longe meliori, quàm antea..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De architectura libri decem.
Varying form of title
M. Vitruvii, viri suae professionis peritissimi, De architectura libri decem.
Varying form of title
M. Vitrvvii, viri svae professionis peritissimi, De architectvra libri decem.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Argentorati : In officina Knoblochiana per Georgium Machaeropioeum, Anno M. D. XLIII. [1543]
Physical description
[52], 96, 99-260, [52] p. : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Note
The first edition of Vitruvius printed in Germany.
Note
Edited by Walther Hermann Ryff.
Note
Plates based on those of the Como 1521 edition.
Note
Pages 97-98 omitted in paging.
Note
Initials.
Citation/references note
Cicognara, 707.
Citation/references note
British Architectural Library. Early Imprints, 3495
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on t.p. verso.
Binding
18th-century brown calf binding; two gold fillets to form a border; small gold-tooled corner ornaments; double gold fillet spine decoration; red morocco spine-label; four recessed sewing supports.
Copy-specific note
Extraneous folded engraved plate of the five orders bound in at p. 100.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 40 blank leaves at the end.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Cf.6.21, Cf.6.17
Subject
Water-supply Italy Rome Early works to 1800.
Subject
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome (Italy) Water-supply Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Frontinus, Sextus Julius. De aquaeductibus urbis Romae.
Added entry--name
Nicholas, 1401 - 1464 of Cusa, Cardinal, De staticis experimentis.
Added entry--name
Knoblochs Druckerei printer.
Added entry--name
Messerschmidt, Georg printer.
Added entry--name
Ryff, Walther Hermann, ? - -1548 editor.
Added entry--place
France Strasbourg.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B32647