Vnderweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel vn[d] richt scheyt, in Linien ebnen vnnd gantzen corporen, durch Albrecht Dürer zů samen getzoge[n], vnd zů nutz alle[n] kunstlieb habenden mit zů gehörigen figuren, in truckt gebracht, im jar. M.D.XXv.
Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471 – Nuremberg 1528)
Category
Books
Date
1525
Materials
Place of origin
Nuremberg
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3030950
Summary
Bibliographic description
[90] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; fol. Running number: 4314. Wanting final blank leaf (Q4). Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Acquired by Sir Richard Ellys at the Uilenbroek sale, Amsterdam, in 1729 (lot 389) for "7.0" (presumably Dutch guilders). Binding: seventeenth-century plain vellum over boards, sewn onto four supports. Spine cracked, partially missing. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471 – Nuremberg 1528), author Hieronymus Formschneyder (d.1556), printer Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471 – Nuremberg 1528), artist