Title from incipit (leaf a2r): LEONIS BAPTISTE ALBERTI DE RE AEDIFICATORIA INCIPIT LEGE FELICITER.
Colophon (leaf [rum]7v): LAUS DEO HONOR ET GLORIA. LEONIS BAPTISTAE ALBERTI FLORENTINI VIRI CLArissimi de re Aedificatoria opus elegantissimum et q[uam] maxime utile/ Florentiae accuratissime impressum opera Magistri Nicolai Laurentii Alamani: Anno salutis Millesimo octuagesimo quinto: quarto chalendas ianuarias.
Printed in Laurentii's type 7:113R.
Collation: a-d⁸ e⁶ f-o⁸ p⁶ q-z⁸ & [con] [rum]⁸: 204 leaves. Leaf a1 unsigned; leaves a2-a4 signed a1-a3.
Paper format: Chancery folio
For two states see BMC.
It appears from the letter of Politianus that the editing was done by Alberti's brother Bernardus, and that his own part was confined to this brief laudatory preface (ISTC).
MS Laur. 89 sup. 113 was used (among others) as printer's copy, see 'Leon Battista Alberti. La biblioteca di un umanista' (catalogue of an exhibition at the BML Firenze), Firenze, 2005, no. 54 (ISTC).
PML copy is Variant A.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.5 cm
PML copy with section torn away at bottom center of leaf a2r, likely removing previous ownership evidence.
Hand decoration: Rubricated, blue lombards with red penwork flourishing and blue paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript foliation and quire numeration (top center of first recto). Minimal marginal notations (leaves a4v, a5v, and s6r-v only). Shelf mark(?), unidentified: .71 (leaf a1r).