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Title: M. Vitruvii Pollionis viri suae professionis peritissimi de Architectura Libri X ad Augustum Ceasarem accuratissime conscripti et locis quamplurimis hac editione emendati adjunctis nunc primum Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii Galli Civis Rom
Author:
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
Author:
Written and edited by Guillaume Philander (French, 1505–1565)
Author:
Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 30–104)
Author:
Nicholas of Cusa (German, 1401–1464)
Editor:
Gualther Hermenius Rivius (German, ca. 1500–after 1545)
Publisher:
Georg Messerschmidt (active 1541–60)
Dedicatee:
François I, King of France (French, Château de Cognac 1494–1547 Château de Rambouillet)
Published in: Strasbourg
Date: 1550
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations
Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 6 3/16 x 2 in. (20.1 x 15.7 x 5.1 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Object Number: 41.100.434
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