Shelfmark
Fq.1.04
Additional shelfmark
Fq.1.05 (another copy)
Author
Uniform title
[De architectura]
Title
M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem. Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis. Præmittuntur Elementa architecturæ collecta ab illustri viro Henrico Wottono equite Anglo. Accedunt Lexicon Vitruvianum Bernardini Baldi Vrbinatis Guastellae Abbatis; et ejusdem Scamilli impares Vitruviani. De pictura libri tres absolutissimi Leonis Baptistæ de Albertis. De sculptura, excerpta maxime animadvertenda ex dialogo Pomponii Gaurici Neapolit. Ludovici Demontiosii Commentarius de sculptura et pictura. Cum variis indicibus copiosissimis. Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Ioanne de Laet Antwerpiano.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De architectvra libri decem
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De architectura libri decem
Varying form of title
M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem
Publication, distribution, etc.
Amstelodami, : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium., Anno MDCXLIX. [1649]
Physical description
[8], 30, [2], 252, [2], 253-272, [28], 164, 69, [3] p. : ill. (wdcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Imprint from added engraved illustrated title-page.
Note
"Elementa architecturae collecta ab Henrico VVottonio, equite, ex optimis auctoribus & exemplis, Anglico quidem scripta & edita Londini anno M.DC.XXIV. Nunc vero In Latinum versa a Joanne de Laet, Antverpiano" (30 p. at beginning) has divisional half-t.p. and separate pagination and register. This section is a translation into Latin of Sir Henry Wotton's "Elements of architecture".
Note
"Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolæ De mensuris et ponderibus libros per Guilielmum Philandrum Castilionium" (caption title): p. 240-252.
Note
"Marci Meibomii Notae in Vitruvium" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf inserted between pp. 252 and 253.
Note
"Vitruvii Voluta ionica hactenus amissa. Restituta a Nicolao Goldmanno": p. [265]-272 with divisional half-t.p.
Note
"Lexicon Vitruvianum, seu De significatione vocabulorum, quibus Vitruvius utitur, commentarius, a Bernaldino Baldo Vrbinate, Guastallae Abbate olim concinnatus, nunc autem multis aliorum doctissimorum virorum interpretationibus, & observationibus auctus, & illustratus a Joanne de Laet, Antwerpiano" and "De pictura, praestantissimâ & nunquam satis laudatâ arte, libri tres absolutissimi Leonis Baptistae de Albertis, viri in omnium scientiarium genere, & praecipue mathematicarum disciplinarum, doctissimi" each have divisional half-title page and begin new pagination and register.
Note
Signatures: *⁴ [dagger]a-[dagger]d⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Gg⁴ Hh⁶ chi² (-chi2) (Ii)⁶ (Kk)⁴ Ii-Kk⁴ Ll⁶, ²A-²T⁴ ²V⁶, a-i⁴.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces, initials, printed marginal notes.
Citation/references note
Fowler, 417
Citation/references note
Cicognara, 726
Citation/references note
Brunet, V, 1327
Citation/references note
Willems, 1097
Citation/references note
Rahir, 1110
Provenance
[Fq.1.04] Topham stamp on letterpress title-page: bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
[Fq.1.04] Ms. motto at head of engraved title-page: "Nudo si, ma contento."
Provenance
[Fq.1.05] Early booklabel of Oriel College Library, Oxford.
Provenance
[Fq.1.05] Ms. inscription inside front cover: Presented to the Fellows' Library, Eton College by Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946).
Binding
[Fq.1.04] Mid-17th century English mottled calf; gold-tooled panel and outer border of gold double fillets on covers; rebacked ca. 1800.
Binding
[Fq.1.05] 17th-century Oxford calf; border of blind triple fillets; four additional fillets parallel to spine; chain holes; printed free-endpapers; rebacked with 19th-century black morocco spine label.
Copy-specific note
[Fq.1.05] Previously EC A1.8, ?Cl.6.42.
Subject
Painting Early works to 1800.
Subject
Sculpture Early works to 1800.
Subject
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Elzevir, Louis, 1604 - 1670 printer.
Added entry--name
Agricola, Georg, 1494 - 1555 De mensuris & ponderibus.
Added entry--name
Montjosieu, Louis de, 16th cent - 16th cent Commentarius de sculptura, caelatura et pictura antiquorum.
Added entry--name
Gaurico, Pomponio, 1481 or 82 - 1528 De sculptura.
Added entry--name
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404 - 1472 De pictura.
Added entry--name
Baldi, Bernardino, 1553 - 1617 De verborum Vitruvianorum significatione.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir, Elements of architecture. Latin.
Added entry--name
Laet, Joannes de, 1581 - 1649 editor.
Added entry--name
Meibom, Marcus, 1630 - 1711 commentator.
Added entry--name
Goldmann, Nikolaus, 1611 - 1665 commentator.
Added entry--name
Saumaise, Claude, 1588 - 1653 commentator.
Added entry--name
Barbaro, Daniel, 1514 - 1570 commentator.
Added entry--name
Philandrier, Guillaume, 1505 - 1565 commentator.
Added entry--name
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Oriel College (University of Oxford) former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B38720