Detail of copy specific marginalia from Alberti, De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485)
This illustration, hand drawn by an early reader, depicts Alberti’s references to curved, straight and perpendicular lines, which the author associates with a bow, chord and arrow.
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Detail of copy specific marginalia from Alberti, De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485)
This illustration, hand drawn by an early reader, depicts Alberti’s references to curved, straight and perpendicular lines, which the author associates with a bow, chord and arrow.
University of Glasgow Library
Special Collections
Leon Battista Alberti
De re aedificatoria
Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.11
768
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faves
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Uploaded on March 8, 2016
Taken on March 1, 2016