This new facsimile variation of the Portfolio of the 13th-century Picard artist Villard de Honnecourt is the 1st ever to be released in colour. The thirty-three leaves are reproduced at genuine dimension from high quality colour transparencies to make sure the absolute best colour copy of the drawings. you will now see adaptations in inks and quill strokes, strains of initial drawings, and corrections made by means of the artist. This research can be the 1st to offer an intensive description of the situation of the leaves, research of every drawing within the portfolio separately, and new transcriptions and literal and loose translations of the inscriptions. the hole bankruptcy covers the background and actual situation of the portfolio, together with reassigning "hands" to textual content chanced on at the leaves. the writer analyses the instruments and inks used, Villard's drawing procedure and magnificence, and evaluates Villard as an artist-draftsman. bankruptcy II, the physique of the booklet, is dedicated to special analyses of the leaves, one after the other, and their drawings and inscriptions. those analyses are of curiosity to these excited by medieval expertise and theology in addition to to these attracted to medieval artwork and structure. bankruptcy III is a brand new biography of Villard that demanding situations the various wild speculations of the final century and a part approximately Villard, setting apart seen fiction from attainable truth. Barnes analyzes intimately Villard's drawings of alternative Gothic constructions and makes a case for Villard having been a lay consultant of the cathedral bankruptcy at Cambrai, one of many constructions Villard drew. an in depth bibliography of Villard stories and a thesaurus of Villard's technical and creative phrases entire this crucial new study.