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: Marcus Pollio Vitruvius|Sextus Julius Frontinus|Georg Messerschmidt|Nicholas of Cusa|Gualther Hermenius Rivius|François I, King of France|Guillaume Philander
Artist bio: 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|French, 1505–1565
Artist role: Author|Author|Publisher|Author|Editor|Dedicatee|Author
Artist nationality: Italian|Roman|German|German|German|French|French
Date: 1550
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations
Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 6 3/16 x 2 in. (20.1 x 15.7 x 5.1 cm)
Classification: Books|Ornament & Architecture
Geography:  Strasbourg     
Credit line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Accession year: 1941