Accession number:
PML 25572
Published:
Impressum Tulli ... : Opera Petri Jacobi ..., anno catholice [9 Calends July (i.e. 23 June) 1505]
Description:
[9] leaves, [37] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
1st ed.
Imprint from colophon. Date expressed in Latin.
Illustrations: 37 full-page outline woodcuts of buildings, mostly churches (interior and exterior), landscapes, bridges etc. illustrating the rules of perspective.
Text in Latin and Middle French.
Signatures: A-D⁸ E¹⁰[F]⁴.
Printer's device on E10r.
Black letter type.
Library's copy: several woodcuts have small "corrections" in grayish ink by an early hand. A photograph of the ca. 1455 bronze relief (housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington) which is related to the woodcut on B7r is in the file for this book.
Binding:
1/2 vellum, mottled paper over boards; in PML case.
Variant Title:
Perspectiva artifialis
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