Author:	Lautensack, Heinrich
Title:	Des Circkels unnd Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectiva, und Proportion der Menschen und Rosse, kurtze, doch gründtliche Underweisung des rechten Gebrauchs. Mit ... Figuren, etc.
Publication place:	Franckfurt am Mayn
Publication date:	1564
Location:	British Library shelfmark 536.l.21.(5) Sloane no's Pr CCCXX (Pr CCLXI and E 212 deleted): no fixed url, search the Sloane Printed Books catalogue.
Size/format:	Folio
Provenance:	Sloane, Hans (1660-1753)
Provenance references:	Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 130.
Annotations:	"Drawing and pasted-in cuttings," noted by Mandelbrote.
Other notes:	Mandelbrote notes no clear evidence of, but possible, Hooke provenance. Pasted manuscripts include a drawing of a red tulip in a clay jug on the verso of the titlepage, and an ink sketch of a face in profile on the recto side of )(iij. Pasted print cuttings include a partial frontispiece of the duodecimo The Resoluer; or Curiosities of Nature. Written in French by Scipio du Plesis... (London, 1635; not listed in BH) on the recto of the titlepage, 5 'kunst calendar' illustrations on fol. 31v (Brachmonat, Herbstmonat, Weinmonat, Wintermonat, Christmonat), and on fol. 34v a geometric diagram of a horse presumably by or inspired by Durer, and multiple cut-outs from Luis de Granada's Devotissime meditationi per I Giorni della settimana tanto per la mattina, come per la sera (Ferrara, 1578; not listed in BH).
database ID:	extra_BH_16

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