Accession number
PML 19576.1
Creator
Vitruvius Pollio.
Object title
De architectura.
Published
[Rome] : [Eucharius Silber], [between 1486 and 16 August 1487]
Description
[98] leaves : illustrated (woodcut) ; 29 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
1 woodcut diagram.
CIBN records variants in quire [1].
Collation: [1⁴; 2-4⁸ 5-7⁶ 8⁸ 9⁶ 10-12⁸ 13⁶ 14⁸]: 98 leaves.
Edited by Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus.
For the terminus post quem, see Paulys Realencyclopädie, vol. IX A, 1, 1961, cols 481-83 (CIBN); the copy at Corpus Christi, Oxford was purchased at Rome on 16 Aug. 1487 (cf. BMC and Rhodes).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm
PML previous copy 2 (PML 76064, Mellon) was sold in the Sexton sale, 1981.
Printed in type 3:112R assigned to Silber.
Printer based on type identification. Proctor and Copinger assigned to Georgius Herolt; H. Degering, Festgabe Haebler (1919), pp.175-202 assigned to an eponymous printer, "Printer of Virtruvius," as also the Frontinus (Goff F-324) with which the Vitruvius is often bound.
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): L. VICTRUVII POLLIONIS AD CESAREM AUGUSTUM DE ARCHITECTURA LIBER PRIMUS.
CIBN records variants in quire [1].
Collation: [1⁴; 2-4⁸ 5-7⁶ 8⁸ 9⁶ 10-12⁸ 13⁶ 14⁸]: 98 leaves.
Edited by Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus.
For the terminus post quem, see Paulys Realencyclopädie, vol. IX A, 1, 1961, cols 481-83 (CIBN); the copy at Corpus Christi, Oxford was purchased at Rome on 16 Aug. 1487 (cf. BMC and Rhodes).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm
PML previous copy 2 (PML 76064, Mellon) was sold in the Sexton sale, 1981.
Printed in type 3:112R assigned to Silber.
Printer based on type identification. Proctor and Copinger assigned to Georgius Herolt; H. Degering, Festgabe Haebler (1919), pp.175-202 assigned to an eponymous printer, "Printer of Virtruvius," as also the Frontinus (Goff F-324) with which the Vitruvius is often bound.
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): L. VICTRUVII POLLIONIS AD CESAREM AUGUSTUM DE ARCHITECTURA LIBER PRIMUS.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout (also in Frontinus), identified as Marcus Musurus by Hoskier, and another hand. Manicules with elongated forefinger. Contemporary foliation.
Provenance
Marcus Musurus (ca. 1470-1517), marginal notations; unidentified signature, 16th/17th century(?) (front fly leaf verso); unidentified French provenance inscription, 18th century(?) (front fly leaf verso); H.C. Hoskier (1864-1938), signature, 1904 (front fly leaf); his sale, Sotheby's London, 29 June 1908, lot 27; unidentified (Martini?) sale catalogue, lot 104 for $250; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Dec. 1912.
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