Full text: Vitruvius: The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in ten books

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.
	        
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