Architectura de quinq[ue] columnarum simmetrica distributione et variis eorundem or-namentis
By: per Vuindelinum Dieterlin pictorem Argentinensem
Contributors: Jobin, Bernhard, -1593; Dasson, Henri; Müller, Philippus Jacobus; Mitchell, Herbert; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library); Haeredes Bernardi Iobini
Publisher: Apud Haeredes Bernhardi Iobini
Published: 1593
Place of publication: Argentinae [i.e. Strasbourg]
Language: lat
Subjects: Columns; Early works to 1800; Architectural Decoration and ornament; Architecture; Details
Other titles: Architectura de quinq[ue] columnarum simmetrica distributione et variis eorundem ornamentis; Architectvra De quinq[ue] Columnarum Simmetrica distributione et variis eorundem or-namentis; Architectura de postium seu portalium ornatu vario liber II; Architectvra de Postium seu Portalium ornatu uario liber II
Notes: Engraved illustrated title page, printed in red and black.

Consists of plates with commentary.

Publisher from colophon.

Date of publication on t.p. of Liber 2 is 1594; date of publication in colophon of that volume is 1595.

Volume 2: Plates numbered in plate 2-58.

Avery Classics copy 1: Pagination v.1: [18] p., 40 [i.e. 38] leaves of plates ; v. 2:  [2] p., 58 leaves  of plates.

Avery Classics copy 1: Volume 1:  Title page cut down and mounted on sheet of paper.

Avery Classics copy 1: Volume 1:  Plates numbered in plate and bound as follows: 1-14, 16-19, 15, 20-34, 37, 39,40.

Avery Classics copy 1: Volume 1:  Plates 34 and 37 trimmed beyond the plate mark and mounted on later paper.

Avery Classics copy 1: Text on the composite order wanting (actually bound at the end of volume 2). Includes [dedicatory?] leaf which begins "Illustrissimo principi ..." and leaf with caption title "Brevis et simplex informatio quomodo ..." The order in which the text is bound also varies from volume 1 of copy 2.

Avery Classics copy 1: Volume 2, Plate 48 inscribed Jacob [Kinel]? dischter zu Leitz Anno 1631 ... den 28 day Januarii dated 1631(?).

Avery Classics copy 1: With ink stamp of Henri Dasson.

Avery Classics copy 1: Verso of colophon of volume 2 annotated (by several hands?). One reads Philippus Jacobus Müller von Haÿlbray Im ... gehört diss Kunstbuch.

Avery Classics copy 1: Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

Avery Classics copy 2: Volume 1 is no. 1 in a volume of works by Dietterlin.

Avery Classics copy 2: Volume 2 is no. 3 in a volume of works by Dietterlin.

Avery Classics copy 2: Volume 1: Plates numbered in plate and bound as follows: 1-5, 16, 6-7, 9-15, 17-28, 8, 32-33, 30.

Avery Classics copy 2:  Includes text on the composite order in correct order in volume 1.  [Dedicatory?] leaf which begins "Illustrissimo principi ..." is bound at the beginning of volume 2. Leaf with caption title "Brevis et simplex informatio quomodo ..." is bound after plate 48.

Avery Classics copy 2: Volume 2: Plate 32 wanting: Plate 50 introducing the composite order is misbound as plate 32. In place of the intended plate 50 is an unnumbered plate which appears in "Architectura de constitutione, symmetria, ac proportione quinq[ue] columnarum ..." Norinbergae : Impensis Huberti & Balthasari Caymox, 1598, as plate 185.

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell

Text in French and Latin.