LIST OF THE SEVERAL EDITIONS AND
VERSIONS OF VITRUVIUS.
.— Editio princeps."—Without year, place, or printer's name
Printed at Rome, by George Herolt, under the superintend-
ence of Sulpitius, in or about 1486. It begins without title
as follows:—“ 10. SULPITIUS LECTORI SALUTEM. Cum di¬
vinum opus Victruvii : non modo studiosis: sed reliquis ho¬
minibus, &c."—At the end of the last book of Vitruvius are
the following verses:
Lector habes tandem veneranda volumina docti
Victruvii: quorum copia rara fuit.
Hæc lege : nam disces : nova: magna : recondita: pulchra :
Et qua sint in re sæpe futura tua.
Emendata vides: sed peccat litera siqua
Corrige : nemo satis lynceus esse potest.
To the Vitruvius is subjoined,— Sexti Julii Frontini viri con¬
sularis : de aquis que in urbem influunt : libellus mirabilis."—
The pages are of thirty-four lines, and the Vitruvius contains
ninety-four fols. including the letter of Sulpitius, &c. The
Frontinus contains only sixteen fols. Gaignat Catalogue 54
francs. La Valiere ditto 130 francs. Polenus says there are
but few errors in this edition. Harwood says it is a very
scarce book.
1496. This Edition begins thus.—" Hoc in volumine hæc opera
continentur. L. Vitruvii Pollionis de Architectura Libri de¬
cem. Sexti Julii Frontini de Aquæductibus Liber unus.
Angeli Politiani Opusculum: quod Panepistemon inscribi¬
tur. Angeli Politiani in priora Analytica prælectio, cui ti¬
tulus est Lamia."—At the end of the Vitruvius:— Florentiæe
impressum anno a natali Christiano M.CCCC.LXXXXVI."—fol.