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

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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.

Not sure if you spotted this - I can't promise it's exhaustive and some of it is just plates from de Ingeneis or De Machinis 

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Munich has his notebook which predates De Ingeneis and shows the same illustrations but sometimes subtly different 

Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 197,II | IIIF Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books
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Also in New York 
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From the NYC collection, this one is new to me
   

Paris has a nice one with colours which someone else put their name to and was apparently found in a sultan's library. It gives the sun a nice prominence and also contain more eastern elements  and a different version of the picture above You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.