Diuina proportione
Subtitle: opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia: prospettiua pictura sculptura: architectura: musica: e altre mathematice: suauissima: sottile: e admirabile doctrina consequira: e delecterassi: co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia
By: M. Antonio Capella eruditiss[imo] recensente
Contributors: Capella, Antonio; Paganini, Paganino; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Saussine, Renée de, 1897- family of printers
Publisher: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat
Published: 1509
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: ita
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Proportion (Art); Early works to 1800; Geometry in art; Drawing
Other titles: Divina proportione
Notes: Author from dedication: "Frater Lucas Patiolus Burgensis Minoritanus et sacrae theologie professor".

Title and last leaf in red and black.

Place and date of publication from colophon (at end of Tractatus tertius): Venetiis impressum per ... Paganinum de Paganinis de Brixia ... Anno redemptionis nostre M.D. VIIII. Klen. Iunii. Leonardo Lauretano Ve. rem. pu. zubernante. pontificatus Iulii. II. anno VI". A similar colophon appears on leaf 33 verso of the first foliation.

Author (in dedication) names Leonardo da Vinci as the artist of drawings on the final 59 leaves.

Signatures: A⁶, b⁸, C-D⁸, E¹⁰, a-b⁸, c¹⁰.

Leaf 25 of first foliation misprinted 17; leaves 14, 16-26 of second foliation numbered 15, 17-27. Leaf LIX misnumbered LXI.

Leaf [34] (1st group) blank.

Rare Book copy 2 (Plimpton copy): Leaves 1-2,5-6 (1st group) wanting; leaves 9 and 10, 17 and 18  (1st numbered group) mutilated with some loss of text and illustrations, leaf 25 (misprinted 17) wanting. Leaf 1, leaf 11 (second numbered group), Leaf 1, leaf 11 (second numbered group) wanting. First [23?] leaves of plates (profile head and alphabet) wanting. Plate "Porta templi dicta speciosa wanting. Plates VI, XXIII, XXV-XXVI, XXXI-XXXIIII, and all after XXXVIII (except XLV) wanting.

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent., p. 500

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, P-7

Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, 223-229

Stillwell, M.B. Science, 202

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