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Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometrae de sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum libri in Latinum conuersi.

Accession number
PML 77029.2
Creator
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Published
[Nuremberg] : In aedib. viduae Durerianae, M.D.XXXII [1532]
Credit line
Gift of Mr John P. Morgan II in memory of Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, 1981.
Notes
Signatures: A-E⁶ F⁴ G-N⁶ O⁴.
Translation by Joachim Camerarius of books 1 and 2 of: Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion.
Imprint from colophon, which reads: Norimbergae excubatur opus aestate anni A Christo seruatore genito MDXXII ...
Description
[80] leaves (last leaf blank) : ill. ; 33 cm (Fol.)
Provenance
Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt (stamp); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. John P. Morgan II in memory of Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, 1981.
Binding
Blind-tooled pigskin (probably Nuremberg).
Classification
Department