Vitruvius Des aller namhafftigiften unnd Hocherfarnesten Römischen Architecti unnd Kunstreichen Werck oder Bawmeysters Marci Vitruvij Pollionis Zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen
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- 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: Written by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
- Translator: Translated and edited by Gualther Hermenius Rivius (German, ca. 1500–after 1545)
- Illustrator: Illustrated by Peter Flötner (German, Thurgau 1485–1546 Nuremberg)
- Illustrator: Illustrated by Hans Brosamer (German, active by 1536, probably died 1552)
- Illustrator: Illustrated by Virgil Solis (German, (?) 1514–1562 Nuremberg)
- Illustrator: Illustrated by Georg Pencz (German, Wroclaw ca. 1500–1550 Leipzig)
- Illustrator: Initial letters illustrated by Hans Springinklee (German, ca. 1495–after 1522)
- Printer: Printed by Sebastian Henricpetri (Swiss, 1527–1579)
- Date: 1614
- Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations
- Dimensions: Overall: 13 1/4 x 8 7/16 x 1 7/8 in. (33.6 x 21.5 x 4.8 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
- Object Number: 41.100.374
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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