Hoc in uolumine haec opera continentur, Cleonidae Harmonicum introductorium / interprete Georgio Valla Placentino. L. Vitruuii Pollionis De architectura libri decem ; Sexti Iulii Frontini De aquaeductibus liber unus ; Angeli Policiani opusculum, quod Panepistemon inscribitur ; Angeli Policiani in priora analytica praelectio cui titulus est Lamia.

Hoc in uolumine haec opera continentur, Cleonidae Harmonicum introductorium / interprete Georgio Valla Placentino. L. Vitruuii Pollionis De architectura libri decem ; Sexti Iulii Frontini De aquaeductibus liber unus ; Angeli Policiani opusculum, quod Panepistemon inscribitur ; Angeli Policiani in priora analytica praelectio cui titulus est Lamia.

De architectura
Hoc in volumine haec opera continentur, Cleonidae Harmonicum introductorium

Impressum Venetiis : Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaquam, anno ab Incarnatione 1497, die tertio Augusti.

[188] p. : diagrams (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

This edition is a close reprint of the edition of Vitruvius of 1496 with the tract of Cleonides prefixed and the editorial note at the end of Frontinus omitted.

Imprint from colophon at the end of Vitruvius, leaf L4r.

Error of imposition: text which should appear on leaf b3v appears on b4r, and vice versa.

Signatures: (1-4)⁸, [*]², A-I⁶, K-L⁴, 2a⁶, 2b⁴, a-b⁶ (C3 signed G3).

Woodcut capitals.

Includes register (which contains errors).

Leaf 8 in 1st gathering is blank.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-742
BM 15th cent., V, p. 522 (IB.23973)
GW 7123

Frontinus, Sextus Julius. De aquis urbis Romae.
Cleonides. Introductio harmonica.

Italy -- Venice.

INC C677 copy 2

Early manuscript notes in Latin and Greek, with punctuation and a few corrections added by hand in 1st gathering. Edges stained red. From the Lockwood collection; acquired in 1994.

INC C677 copy 1

Imperfect: lacks the 1st gathering (title description from BM 15th cent.); edges have been trimmed, affecting the manuscript notes; gatherings a-b are bound before gatherings 2a and 2b. A few manuscript notes and markings in margins in brown ink; other marks and corrections of errors in headlines in pencil by T.L. Donaldson. Autograph "Tho[ma]s L. Donaldson London May 1853 ex dono W:L:D." at end of his bibliographical notes on front free endpaper (no. 111, in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, August 1886); another inscription on same leaf "I purchased this work at the sale of Profr. Donaldson's Library ... [signed] Gilbert R: Redgrave, Muswell Hill", and his bookplate (not located in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, May 1926); acquired in 1943. Rebound; gatherings a-b are bound before 2a-2b as in previous binding; late printed fragments of an English gazette used in spine of previous vellum binding; in a tailored box (endpapers, fragment of a periodical, and paper label from previous binding are kept in a portfolio in the box).

F2.6.43