Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)

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    - For two states see BMC
    - "It appears from the letter of Politianus that the editing was done by Alberti's brother Bernardus, and that his own part was confined to this brief laudatory preface"
    - "MS Laur. 89 sup. 113 was used (among others) as printer's copy; ('Leon Battista Alberti. La biblioteca di un umanista' [catalogue of an exhibition at the BML Firenze], Firenze, 2005, no. 54)"
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  title: 'De re aedificatoria. Ed: Bernardus de Albertis. Add: Angelus Politianus: Epistola ad Laurentium Medicem. Baptista Siculus: Carmen ad lectorem'
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  date_of_cataloguing: 800501
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