L'architecture ou l'art de bien bastir, [18--?]

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
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Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

L'architecture ou l'art de bien bastir, Manuscript MS 81.13, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Language:
Latin
Preferred citation:

L'architecture ou l'art de bien bastir, Manuscript MS 81.13, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Assumed to be the notebook of an anonymous French student studying the five orders of architecture. Most of the pages are written in Latin with some in Italian and French. Much of the notebook consists of a glossary of architectural terms. Includes an engraving, several illustrations of columns, and other architectural views.

Physical description:
1 item (122 leaves ; 23 x 18 cm.)