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Vitruvii De architectura libri decem
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Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem est tractatus technicus antiquus, compositus in decem partibus quae architecturae principia, regulas et praxim explicant. Editio a Valentino Rose anno MDCCCXCIX emissa, cum annotationibus criticis, tabulis et indicibus codicum antiquitatis, praebet textum in duplici forma: primum cum omnibus notis et apparatus, deinde simplici versione. Praefatio explicat necessitatem usus codicum Harleianus, Leidenensis, Escorialensis et aliorum, ostendens varietatem manuscriptorum medii aevi, eorumque defectus, lacunas et emendationes. Codices antiquiores, a saeculo IX ad XII, enumerantur, cum notis de variantibus litterarum, symbolorum et abbreviationum, quae lectori diligentem studium linguarum scribarum exigunt. Paginae speciales exhibent symbola non Unicode, quae imaginis forma praebentur, atque indices paginarum, capitulorum et linearum utriusque editionis praebentur ad comparationem.
Stilus huius operis est classicus Latinus, densus cum terminis technicis, annotationibus marginalibus et commentariis philologicis, typicis pro operibus architectonicis antiquorum. Vox authoris, per medium commentarii editoris, resonat ut auctoritas erudita, sed etiam ut dialogus inter manuscripta et lectorem modernum. Lectores architecturae historiae, classicorum studii, codicum criticorum et philologiae Latinæ, qui gaudent in textibus complexis et in investigatione variarum versionum, hoc volumen invenient utilem. Qui desiderant intellegere fundamenta architecturae Romanae, simul cum insightibus de transmissione textus per saecula, hanc editionem lectio gratissima erit.
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