Another longshot: editions of Capo Ferro's Gran Simulacro

[10thRoyal]

Originally Posted by Interested Party

10th Royal, Nice find. How do you store and conserve a text that old?

I'm actually still trying to figure that out myself so any info would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by Interested Party

Has anyone looked at the Jared Kirby 2021 publication of the "Gran Simulacuro"? If so, is it the same material?

After a very helpful conversation with Michael Chidester, the text and format does match the 1629 edition. This edition does not include about half the book, removing all pages that don't have text that describes a specific plate. The Kirby editions looks to be the same format as the 1610 format of Gran Simulacro with the text describing a plate being on the page opposite of the plate describe. On the 1629 and 1652 editions, these descriptive texts are moved directly below the image but the text is more or less the same. So the text matches Kirby, minus the half of the text that isn't paired with specific plates.