COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22317968
Reference Number:
10481
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Illuminated page of text with coat of arms of Maffeo Vallaresso
Parent Work Title:
[G]eographia[m] multos scripsisse nouimus Pater Beatissime Paule .II. Venete. Pont. Maxime. tempo[rum] nostroru[m] felicitas et gloria. cum eiusmodi sit doctrine opus ...
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Geography. Latin. 1469
Creator:
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
Creator Role:
Translator
Creator:
Tifernate, Gregorio, 1414-approximately 1462
Creator Role:
Translator
Creator:
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Andronicus Callistus, -1478
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Birago, Lampugnino, -1472
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:
[a4]r
Image Sequence Number:
a004r
Description:
Decoration: illuminated four-sided border by a Venetian artist in the style of the Pico Master of flowers and leaves in blue, gold, green, and maroon in an intricate design of heavily filigreed curling black pen-work and gold dots, the gilt with punch-dotting; in the lower margin two angel supporters (on the left dressed in maroon with green wings, on the right dressed in green with maroon wings) hold a wreath quartered in blue, green, and maroon, containing the coat of arms of Maffeo Vallaresso (1415-1495) with the initials M V and a gold cross (see description above); the outer margin also contains a black eagle displayed, a thrush-like bird in gold and maroon, a black cockerel, and a wreath divided horizontally in green and maroon around a scene of two deer lying down with countryside in the background; the whole border outlined in blue, gold, and maroon (outer edge) and in blue (inner edge); with a 7-line initial 'S' in maroon containing a half-length portrait of Strabo dressed in yellow and cloaked in red, wearing a red hat, holding an orb in his left hand and pointing upwards with his right hand, on a gold ground edged in black.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Geography, Ancient--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:
Painting (image-making)
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Italy: Lazio: Roma: Rome
People Covered:
Vallaresso, Maffeo, 1415-1495
People Covered:
Strabo
Item Height:
422 mm
Item Width:
310 mm
Provenance:
Vallaresso, Maffeo, 1415-1495, 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
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