Detail View: Early Printing Collection: JRL22317970
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Image Number:
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JRL22317970
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Reference Number:
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11565
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Illuminated page of text with coat of arms
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Parent Work Title:
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Bessarionis Cardinalis Sabini & Patriarche Consta[n]tinopolitani capitula libri p[ri]mi aduersus calu[m]niatore[m] Plato[n]is incipiu[n]t feliciter..
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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In calumniatorem Platonis. 1469
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Creator:
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Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403-1472
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480
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Creator Role:
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Editor
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Creator:
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Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Creator:
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Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Date Created:
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Before 1469-08-28
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Publication Details:
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Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz
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Page/Sheet:
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[c2]r
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Image Sequence Number:
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c002r
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Description:
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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.
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Language:
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Latin
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Subject:
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Philosophy, Ancient--Early works to 1800
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Subject:
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Plato--Criticism and interpretation
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Sub-Category:
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Incunabula
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Sub-Category:
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Illuminations [paintings]
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Sub-Category:
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Coats of arms
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Technique Used:
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Printing (process)
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Medium:
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Gold leaf
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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Italy: Lazio: Roma: Rome
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Item Height:
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350 mm
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Item Width:
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255 mm
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Provenance:
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Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Educational Notes:
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
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Academic Project Lead:
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Julianne Simpson
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Academic Project Lead:
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John Gandy
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Academic Project Lead:
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Ed Potten
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