COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22317960
Reference Number:
9116
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Illuminated page of text with initial 'T'
Parent Work Title:
[E]loque[n]tie sple[n]dore: & reru[m] dignitate: locupletiore[m] Virgilio Poeta[m]: unu[m] fortasse Homeru[m] Græci: nullum certe Latini inuenient. ...
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Works. 1469
Creator:
Virgil
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1469
Publication Details:
Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz
Page/Sheet:
[a1]r
Image Sequence Number:
a001r
Description:
Decoration: fifteenth or sixteenth-century illuminated 8-line initial 'T' supplied in blue and yellow on a gold ground edged in black, with blue, green, maroon and yellow foliate decoration, black pen-work and gold dots extending into the inner, upper and lower margins; in the lower margin a green laurel wreath on a gold ground containing illuminated arms: Or, three hunting horns stringed azure on a maroon ground with white pen-work.. Formerly attributed as the arms of Johannes Hornberger (d. 1569), of Buda, city official in Rottenburg, but this attribution is doubtful. (described above) on a maroon ground with white pen-work.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Epic poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Coats of arms
Sub-Category:
Illuminations [paintings]
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Italy: Lazio: Roma: Rome
Item Height:
330 mm
Item Width:
225 mm
Provenance:
Convento di Santa Maria del Popolo (Rome, Italy), former owner
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Educational Notes:
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead:
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead:
Ed Potten
JRL22317960
