COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22317969
Reference Number:
3222
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Illuminated page of text with coat of arms
Parent Work Title:
C. Plynius Secundus Nouocomensis. Domitiano suo salutem. [L]ibros Naturalis Historiae nouitium Camenis Quiritiu[m] tuoru[m] opus natu[m] apud me proxima foetura ...
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Naturalis historia. 1470
Creator:
Pliny, the Elder
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Pliny, the Younger
Creator:
Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.
Creator:
Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230.
Creator:
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340.
Creator:
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
[Between 8 April and 30 August] 1470
Publication Details:
Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz
Page/Sheet:
[a4]v
Image Sequence Number:
a004v
Description:
Decoration: Italian (Roman?), illuminated 3-sided border of white vine-stems defined in blue, green, and red, incorporating a gold initial letter 'L', a portrait of the author[?] (in a red robe and holding a green book) in a roundel, birds, a butterfly, a deer, and putti, within gold lines outlined in black, with black pen-work and gold dots, and in the lower margin a green wreath containing a coat of arms (scraped but possibly a barry of six) surmounted by a Bishop's mitre (Michiel?) on a purple ground.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Geography, Ancient--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Natural history--Pre-Linnean works
Subject:
Science, Ancient--Early works to 1800
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Illuminations [paintings]
Sub-Category:
Coats of arms
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Vellum
Creation Site:
Italy: Lazio: Roma: Rome
Item Height:
405 mm
Item Width:
300 mm
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Provenance:
Convento di Santa Anastasia (Verona, Italy), 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
JRL22317969
