Title:
Vitruvius Des aller namhafftigiften unnd Hocherfarnesten Römischen Architecti unnd Kunstreichen Werck oder Bawmeysters Marci Vitruvij Pollionis Zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen
Author:
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
Translator:
Translated and edited by Gualther Hermenius Rivius (German, ca. 1500–after 1545)
Illustrator:
Peter Flötner (German, Thurgau 1485–1546 Nuremberg)
Illustrator:
Hans Brosamer (German, active by 1536, probably died 1552)
Illustrator:
Illustrated by Virgil Solis (German, (?) 1514–1562 Nuremberg)
Illustrator:
Georg Pencz (German, Wroclaw ca. 1500–1550 Leipzig)
Illustrator:
Initial letters after Hans Springinklee (German, ca. 1495–after 1522)
Printer:
Sebastian Henricpetri (Swiss, 1527–1579)
Date:
1614
Medium:
Printed book with woodcut illustrations
Dimensions:
12 3/8 x 7 13/16 x 1 3/4in. (31.5 x 19.8 x 4.5cm)
Classifications:
Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line:
Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Accession Number:
41.100.215