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For the convenience of scholars, this page aggregates digital versions of all extant manuscripts by Sebastiano Serlio, beginning with Avery’s own manuscript for Serlio’s sixth book. In each instance, we have clearly indicated the holding institution and links will take the viewer to external sites maintained by each repository.

A sixteenth-century Italian architect and theoretician, Sebastiano Serlio was influential in canonizing the classical orders of architecture as the author of seven books on architecture, collectively known as Tutte l'opere d'architettura. The sixth book in the series, On Domestic Architecture, was not published in Serlio's lifetime but survived in manuscript form. In this volume, Serlio created the first typology of Western domestic architecture. His designs accommodated every strata of society from the poor, to the emerging bourgeoisie, to the nobility.

Jacopo Strada published Serlio's seventh book posthumously in 1575. The volume addressed unusual aspects of architectural design including irregular lots and pre-existing structures. It also included a series of ornamental designs for fireplaces and chimneys and illustrations of roof trusses. The manuscript’s illustrations vary significantly from the woodcuts published by Strada.
 

Serlio also produced a manuscript on military architecture that included a restoration of a Roman military camp based on Polybius’s text. This manuscript was never published and appears to be in addition to the seven books Serlio promised readers in his preface to Book IV.
 

Serlio's volume devoted to portals was published posthumously in 1551 in Lyon. It is often included in the collected works of Serlio as Book VI, but that designation was given by the publishers and not by Serlio.