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Title

  • De re militari.

Names

  • Valturio, Roberto, 1405-1475.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Franck, Peter, binder.

Created / Published

  • [3d quarter of 15th cent.]

Headings

  • -  Military art and science--Early works to 1800
  • -  [Italy]

Notes

  • -  Manuscript on paper.
  • -  Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺].
  • -  Humanistic script.
  • -  Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepia drawings colored in part.
  • -  Leaves [106]-[107] and a few leaves at end wanting.
  • -  Leaf [Ia]: ELENCHVS ET INDEX RER[um] militarium; leaf [4a]: Ad MAGNANIMVM ET ILLVSTREM HEROA SIGISMVNDVM PANDVLFVM MALATESTAM ... ROBERTI VALTVRRII REI MILITARIS VOLVMINVM PREFATIO; leaf [181b]: (book 12, last chapter): plurima denq[ue] sacror[um] ethnicor[um]q[ue] libror[um] ac oium optimar[um] atrium ...
  • -  Early inscription on leaf [Ia]: Fris Antonini Lopij Politiani; on same leaf, old classification mark: V.H. 7.; coat of arms on leaf [4a], representing a white tower on a blue shield with the letter R on the left (Valturio's device?).
  • -  Radakiewicz, T. The editio princeps of R. Valturio's De re militari (In Maso Finiguerra, 18-19 (1940), p. 15-82).
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 6
  • -  Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada v. 2, p. 1848, no. 12
  • -  Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 157
  • -  Library of Congress. Rosenwald Collection (1954), 6
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy Binder's ticket on end leaf of Peter Franck, Hand Bookbinder, signed and dated August 7, 1945.
  • -  Input from Rosenwald catalog; td12 2011-09-28
  • -  Formerly identified as Rosenwald ms. no. 14
  • -  LAC ddw 2023-03-14 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [182+ l.] illus. 34 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Rosenwald 6

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2011655080

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Valturio, Roberto, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, and Peter Franck. De Re Militari. [3d Quarter of 15th Cent] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011655080/.

APA citation style:

Valturio, R., Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection & Franck, P. De Re Militari. [3d Quarter of 15th Cent] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011655080/.

MLA citation style:

Valturio, Roberto, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, and Peter Franck. De Re Militari. [3d Quarter of 15th Cent] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2011655080/>.