COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22317977
Reference Number:
3225
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Illuminated page of text with coat of arms
Parent Work Title:
M. Fabii. Quintiliani Institutionu[m] oratoriaru[m] ad Victorium Marcellum. Liber primus Prefatio..
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Institutiones oratoriae. 1470
Creator:
Quintilian
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Campano, Giannantonio, Bishop, 1429-1477
Creator:
Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
After 1470-08-30
Publication Details:
Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz
Page/Sheet:
[b1]r
Image Sequence Number:
b001r
Description:
Decoration: Rome, fifteenth-century, illuminated 8-line initial 'P' is supplied in maroon and pink with blue and green foliate decoration on a square gold ground outlined in black, heavy gold and red bar in inner margin with blue, green, maroon and pink, and purple flower and leaf forms, upper margin has flowers, black pen-work and gold dots, same in lower margin and also with a green wreath, outlined in gold, containing an unidentified coat of arms (barry of four vert and argent in chief argent a castle gules) on a purple ground.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Oratory, Ancient--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Rhetoric, 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:
Illumination (image-making process)
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
JRL22317977
