Divina proportione :
opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia: prospettiua pictura sculptura: architectura: musica: e altre mathematice: suavissima: sotile: e admirabile doctrina consequira: e delecterassi: co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia /
[frater Lucas Patiolus Burgensis Minoritanus et sacrae theologie professor] ; M. Antonio Capella eruditiss[imo] recensente.

Description

Main Author

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517.

Related Names

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Capella, Antonio

Language(s)

Italian

Published

[Venetiis] : A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509.

Subjects

Proportion (Art)
Lettering
Lettering > Lettering / Early works to 1800.
Proportion (Art) > Proportion (Art) / Early works to 1800.
Early works

Note

Lacks plates listed in table as LX-LXI as usual. Plate LIX numbered LXI. Missing ill. possibily omitted by publisher with the obfuscating numbering. Cf. Mortimer and Bertieri.
Leaf 25 of first foliation misprinted 17; leaves 14, 16-26 of second foliation numbered 15, 17-27.
Author (in dedication) names Leonardo da Vinci as the artist of drawings on the final 59 leaves.
Similar colophons appear on leaf 27, second foliation and leaf 33 verso of first foliation.
Title and last leaf in red and black.
Author's name from dedication, leaf [2] first series.

Physical Description

[6], 33, [1] (blank), 27 (i.e., 26), [25], LXI [i.e., LIX], [2] (1 blank) leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm. (fol.)

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