Diuina proportione
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Imprint from colophons on leaves E9 verso and c10 recto: 1) Venetiis Impressum per probum virum Paganinum de paganinis / de Briscia ... Anno Remdemptionis [sic] nostre. M℗ʺD. IX℗ʺ K[a]len[das]℗ʺ Iunii. Leonardo Lauretano. Ve[netiae]. Rem. Pu[blicam]. Gubernante Pontificatus . Iulii. ii. Anno. vi.; 2) Venetiis impressum per probum virum Paganinum de Paganinis de Brixia ... Anno Redemptionis nostre. M.D. VIIII. K[a]len[das]. Iunii. Leonardo Lauretano Ve[netiae]. Rem. Pu[blicam]. Gubernante. Pontificatus Iulii. II. anno VI.
Both colophons include mention of 15-year privilege.
Author's name at head of dedication.
Edited by Marcus Antonius Capella.
An Italian version of Piero della Francesca's "De quinque corporibus regularibus."
Two issues: the second with verse on leaf A1 verso.
Signatures: Áœ b́ı C-D́ı E℗£́ʻ áı ℗øb́ı c℗£́ʻ; 1-11́ı; signatures for unsigned woodcut series derived from Adams..
Royal half-sheet quarto; title printed in red and black; woodcut initials; geometric marginal diagrams.
87 woodcuts after the text.
Access to physical copy/copies by appointment only. Please contact Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department for further information.
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, P7
Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Italian 16th century books, 346
Cataloged 20180412 jmoschella
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy E.191.56 FOLIO bound in brown goatskin by Charles Meunier. Bookplate of the BPL Bowditch Collection. Leaves E10 and [11]́ (both blank) wanting. Woodcuts bound in same order as described by Mortimer: geometric human head after Piero della Francesca, 23 woodcuts of roman capital letterforms (with O twice and Z omitted), three architectural drawings (preceded in this copy by a single early/contemporary blank), 59 woodcuts of solid and open geometric forms, genealogical tree of proportions and propportionality. Leaf dimensions: 294 x 195 mm. Purchased in Jan., 1948 from William Schab.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy E.191.56 FOLIO with verses on A1 verso.
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