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Title

  • Diuina proportione: opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia, prospectiua pictura sculpura, architectura, musica, e altre mathematice, suauissima, sottile, e admirabile doctrina consequira, e delectarassi, co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia. M. Antonio Capella eruditiss[imo] recensente

Other Title

  • Divina proportione

Names

  • Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517, author
  • Capella, Antonio, editor
  • Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, ill
  • Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492
  • Paganini, Alessandro, active 1513-1538, printer
  • Paganini, Paganino, printer
  • Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

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

Headings

  • -  Proportion (Art)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Geometry in art--Early works to 1800
  • -  Italy--Venice

Notes

  • -  Title page printed in red and black.
  • -  Author's name at head of dedication.
  • -  Colophon, leaf E9 verso: Venetiis impressum per probum virum Paganinum de Paganinis de Briscia, MDIX K[al]len. Iunii.
  • -  Includes "Libellus in tres partiales tractatus divisus q[ui]nq[ue] corporum regularium [et] depe[n]dentiu[m] active perscrutatio[n]is," an Italian translation of Piero della Francesca's "De quinque corporibus regularibus."
  • -  Contains woodcuts of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci depicting geometrical figures.
  • -  Signatures: A⁶ B-D⁸ E¹⁰ a-b⁸ c¹⁰.
  • -  EDIT 16, CNCE 28200
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 763
  • -  LC copy: Contemporary binding of stamped leather, hardware and one strap for clasps present; the lining of the boards consists of leaves from a 15th century law treatise, covered by a leaf from a ms. on vellum.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LAC scc 2019-09-26 update (2 cards)

Medium

  • [6], 33, [1], 27 [i.e. 26] leaves, [27], LXI [i.e. 59] leaves, [87] leaves of plates : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NC745.A2 P3
  • NC745.A2 P3 Copy 2 Grolieresque binding.
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item P-001, Reel 150 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1983]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 13023100

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Pacioli, Luca, Approximately , Author, Da Vinci Leonardo, Della Francesca Piero, Alessandro Paganini, Paganino Paganini, Early Printing Collection, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Diuina proportione: opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia, prospectiua pictura sculpura, architectura, musica, e altre mathematice, suauissima, sottile, e admirabile doctrina consequira, e delectarassi, con varie questione de secretissima scientia. M. Antonio Capella eruditissimo recensente. editeds by Capella, Antonioitor [Venetiis: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/13023100/.

APA citation style:

Pacioli, L., Leonardo, D. V., Piero, D. F., Paganini, A., Paganini, P., Early Printing Collection & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Capella, A., ed. (1509) Diuina proportione: opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia, prospectiua pictura sculpura, architectura, musica, e altre mathematice, suauissima, sottile, e admirabile doctrina consequira, e delectarassi, con varie questione de secretissima scientia. M. Antonio Capella eruditissimo recensente. [Venetiis: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/13023100/.

MLA citation style:

Pacioli, Luca, Approximately , Author, et al. Diuina proportione: opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia, prospectiua pictura sculpura, architectura, musica, e altre mathematice, suauissima, sottile, e admirabile doctrina consequira, e delectarassi, con varie questione de secretissima scientia. M. Antonio Capella eruditissimo recensente. ed by Capella, Antonioitor [Venetiis: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/13023100/>.