Descriptive Information

Title

De re militari.

Call Number

41.3

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcx346dk00r

Publisher

Verona : Johannes Nicolai de Verona, 1472.

Language

Latin

Date Created

1472

Format

Book

Extent

[524] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (fol.)

Provenance

WHS copy: Purchased from Philobiblon; ex-Bernard Malle.

References

Goff, V-88

BM 15th cent., VII, p. 948 (IB. 30705)

Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., V-041

ISTC, iv00088000

BN cat. des incun., V-57

BSB-Ink, V-52

Hain-Copinger, 15847*

Rosenwald, 218

Klebs, 1014.1

Sander, 7481

IDL, 4572

IGI, 10114

Madsen, 4083-4084

Oates, 2593-2594

Proctor, 6912

Dyson-Perrins, 7 (2d illus. book in Italy)

Brunet, V, col. 1066

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Title and imprint from ISTC.

First edition.

First book printed in Verona and the first illustrated by an Italian artist; illustrations attributed to Matteo de' Pasti or to his school. Cf. Sander, Le livre à figures italien, v. 3, p. xlv.

Colophon: Iohannes ex Uerona oriundus Nicolai cyrugie medici filius artis impressorie magister hunc De re militari librum elegantissimum litteris & figuratis signis sua in patria primus impressit. an. M. CCCCLXXII.

Work dedicated to Sigismundus Pandulphus Malatesta.

Poem by Marco da Rimini on Valturio and his work addressed to Valturio: p. [522-523]. For attribution of authorship of the poem, see E. Rodakiewicz, The editio princeps of Roberto Valturio's De re militari, 1940, p. 80.

Contains ca. 100 woodcuts, most of designs illustrating various military weapons and engines. "Their irregular placing on the page shows that they were struck off, or perhaps hand-stamped, after the letterpress"--BM 15th cent.

37 lines. Type: 122 R. Capital spaces at beginning of each book and each paragraph.

In Lilly Library copy book incipits are finely illuminated in gold and multiple colors; an illuminated border also surrounds the first page of text; capital spaces filled in red or blue.

Signatures: [pi⁶ (pi5-6 blank) a-g¹⁰ h¹⁴ i² k-m¹⁰ n¹² o⁸ p⁶ q-s¹⁰ (s7 blank) t¹² u-z¹⁰ et¹⁰ con¹⁰ rum¹²].

Discovery Information

Subject

Military art and science—Early works to 1800

Perspective—Specimens—Early works to 1800

Illumination of books and manuscripts—Specimens—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

534

Institutional Information

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5d8538d2-c2bf-46c4-98f6-4887d0e0b003/manifest

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