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
Object type: Book ; Ornament and architecture
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Guillaume Philander|Marcus Pollio Vitruvius|Sextus Julius Frontinus|Georg Messerschmidt|Nicholas of Cusa|Gualther Hermenius Rivius|François I, King of France
Artist bio: French, 1505–1565|Roman, active late 1st century BCE|ca. 30–104|active 1541–60|German, 1401–1464|German, ca. 1500–after 1545|Château de Cognac 1494–1547 Château de Rambouillet
Artist role: Author|Author|Author|Publisher|Author|Editor|Dedicatee
Artist nationality: French|Italian|Roman|German|German|German|French
Date: 1550
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations
Dimensions: 7 11/16 x 6 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (19.6 x 15.7 x 4.4 cm)
Classification: Books|Ornament & Architecture
Geography:  Strasbourg     
Credit line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Accession year: 1941