Raison d'architecture Antique : extraicte De Vitruue, & autres anciens architecteurs, nouuellement traduicte d'espaignol en françois, à l'vtilité de ceulx qui se delectent en edifices.
Title
Raison d'architecture Antique : extraicte De Vitruue, & autres anciens architecteurs, nouuellement traduicte d'espaignol en françois, à l'vtilité de ceulx qui se delectent en edifices.
Date
1555
Place
Paris
Publisher
Gilles Gourbin
Benoist Preuost
Benoist Preuost
Language
French
Contributor
Vitruvius Pollio, c. 80–70 BCE– after c. 15 BCE.
Note
RUNNING TITLE:
Dialogve d'architectvre
COLOPHON:
Imprimé à Paris, par Benoist Preuost, à l'enseigne de L'ettroille d'or, rue Frementel 1555.
Final leaf verso with printers device of chicken.
FORMAT:
[112] unnumbered pages [3 folded] : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
SIGNATURES:
a-g⁸
Pages numbered only on recto.
BINDING:
CRRS copy bound in contemporary yapp edged, richly gold tooled vellum. Both boards are tooled with double border with corner ornaments, square motif in spaces and center cartouche with the initials HD in the center. Yapp edges tooled with small scrolls, and spine with six sections decorated alternately with small squares and floral/vine motif. Front paste down bears early 20th century bookplate of Charles Friese.
Dialogve d'architectvre
COLOPHON:
Imprimé à Paris, par Benoist Preuost, à l'enseigne de L'ettroille d'or, rue Frementel 1555.
Final leaf verso with printers device of chicken.
FORMAT:
[112] unnumbered pages [3 folded] : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
SIGNATURES:
a-g⁸
Pages numbered only on recto.
BINDING:
CRRS copy bound in contemporary yapp edged, richly gold tooled vellum. Both boards are tooled with double border with corner ornaments, square motif in spaces and center cartouche with the initials HD in the center. Yapp edges tooled with small scrolls, and spine with six sections decorated alternately with small squares and floral/vine motif. Front paste down bears early 20th century bookplate of Charles Friese.
Archive Location
Library Catalog
Num Pages
112
Short Title
Medidas del Romano. French
Call Number
NA5 .S247 1555
Rare Book
Collection
Citation
Diego de Sagredo, c. 1490-c. 1528., “Raison d'architecture Antique : extraicte De Vitruue, & autres anciens architecteurs, nouuellement traduicte d'espaignol en françois, à l'vtilité de ceulx qui se delectent en edifices.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed May 31, 2025, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10418.