Main entry:

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517.

Title & Author:

Diuina proportione : opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia: prospectiua pictura sculptura: architectura: musica: e altre mathematice: suavissima: sottile: e admirabile doctrina consequira: e delectarassi: co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia / [frater Lucas Patiolus Burgensis Minoritanus et sacrae theologie professor] ; M. Antonio Capella eruditiss[imo] recensente.

Publication:

[Venetiis] : A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, [1509]

Description:

[6], 33, [1], 27 [i.e. 26] leaves, 87 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Notes:
Statement of responsibility from dedication.
Title and last leaf in red and black.
Similar colophons appear on leaf 27, second foliation and leaf 33 verso of first foliation.
Author (in dedication) names Leonardo da Vinci as the artist of drawings on the final 59 numbered leaves of plates.
Signatures: A¡, b€, C-D€, Eℓ°, a-b€, cℓ°.
Leaf 25 of first foliation misprinted 17; leaves 14, 16-26 of second foliation numbered 15, 17-27.
Plates: [24] leaves after first foliation; [3], lxi [i.e. lix], [1] leaves after second foliation.
Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 346
Adams P-7
Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, 223-229
Stillwell, M.B. Science, 202

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Piero en tête = Meditations on Piero", Centre canadien d'architecture May 2-Sept. 3, 2001.

Subject:

Proportion (Art)
Drawing Early works to 1800.
Proportions (Art)
Dessin Ouvrages avant 1800.
Drawing.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Capella, Antonio.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.

Divina proportione

Holdings:

Location: Library cage plus 138182
Call No.: W10310
Status: Available