Palatino 766 pipes, pools, cliffs, streams... (by Taccola)

[Bernd]

It would be worth asking an expert on Taccola about what we know about the Sun image. Is it likely Taccola invented it from scratch? Or did he copy it and just added the pipes? Most of Taccola's drawings have parallels in Vegetius' De rei militari and Bellifortis by Konrad Kyeser. The problem is that there is no clear timeline. Manuscripts and printed books of both pre-and post-date Taccola. So who influenced whom might be a complicated matter. But so far Taccola is the best match. Also note how many of his drawings are accompanied by a single word, just like many VM labels.

Here some segmented pipes I think we haven't discussed yet.
   
   

Do we actually have a list of all existing Taccola manuscripts and copies? I read the originals were only rediscovered in the 1960s.