Leonis Baptiste Alberti De re aedificatoria
Contributors: Alberti, Bernardo, editor; Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494; Baptista, Siculus; Laurentii, Nicolaus, active 1475-1486, printer; Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner
Publisher: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus
Published: 1485
Place of publication: Florence
Language: lat
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Architecture
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: De re aedificatoria
Notes: Title from caption on a2.

Various states of the colophon and the final gathering are recorded (cf. BM 15th cent., VI, 630).

Imprint based on colophon ([rum]7): LAVS DEO HONOR ET GLORIA. LEONIS BAPTISTAE ALBERTI FLORENTINI VIRI CLArissimi de re Aedificatoria opus elega[n]tissimu[m] et qnamaxime utile: Florentiae accuratissime impressum opera Magistri Nicolai Laurentii Alamani: Anno Salutis Millesimo octuagesimo quinto: quarto Kalendas Ianuarius.

With Angelo Poliziano's dedicatory Epistola ad Laurentium Medicem and Baptista Siculus's Carmen ad lectorem. It appears from Poliziano's epistle that the editing was done by Alberti's brother Bernardo (cf. ISTC).

Signatures: a-d́ı éœ f-óı ṕœ q-źı &́ı [con]́ı [rum]́ı.

Initial spaces with and without guide letters.

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Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 630

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-215

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 579

Incunabula short title catalogue ia00215000 (IB.27125a)

Cataloged 20170117 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 18th/19th-century red goatskin panelled in gilt. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt. All text block edges are stained yellow, with the title inscribed along the fore edge. Present on the recto of the front flyleaf is a purchase inscription referencing the Hammond sale of July, 1815, here conjectured to be in the hand of Richard Heber. Early marginalia is present on a2 verso. The copy described herein comports with the first variant described in BM 15th century (IB.27125a: [rum]8 and the innermost sheet of gathering I printed in Nerlius 110 R).