COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22317970
Reference Number:
11565
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Illuminated page of text with coat of arms
Parent Work Title:
Bessarionis Cardinalis Sabini & Patriarche Consta[n]tinopolitani capitula libri p[ri]mi aduersus calu[m]niatore[m] Plato[n]is incipiu[n]t feliciter..
Alternative Parent Work Title:
In calumniatorem Platonis. 1469
Creator:
Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403-1472
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
Before 1469-08-28
Publication Details:
Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz
Page/Sheet:
[c2]r
Image Sequence Number:
c002r
Description:
Decoration: Italian, fifteenth-century, illuminated 10-line initial 'I' is supplied in gold, incorporated into a three-sided white vine-stem border with blue, green, and maroon decoration, and outlined in blue, terminating in bunched finials, with black pen-work rays and gold dots; in the lower border a green wreath containing a (later?, slightly lopsided) coat of arms of an object (a chess-rook or a bell?) in gold on a red shield radiant on a blue ground (see note on the arms above); in the right-hand margin three birds (parakeets?) in green and maroon in different poses arranged vertically and standing on gold dots.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Philosophy, Ancient--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Plato--Criticism and interpretation
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)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Italy: Lazio: Roma: Rome
Item Height:
350 mm
Item Width:
255 mm
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
JRL22317970
