Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometrae de sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum libri in Latinum conuersi.
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Accession number:
PML 77029.2
Published:
[Nuremberg] : In aedib. viduae Durerianae, M.D.XXXII [1532]
Description:
[80] leaves (last leaf blank) : ill. ; 33 cm (Fol.)
Credit:
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 ...
Binding:
Blind-tooled pigskin (probably Nuremberg).
Provenance:
Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt (stamp); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. John P. Morgan II in memory of Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, 1981.
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