COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22316174
Reference Number:
9924
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Portrait of Roberto Valturio on page of text
Alternative Image Title:
Illuminated coat of arms (Cassano Serra of Naples)
Parent Work Title:
De re militari
Creator:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405-1475
Creator Role:
Author
Date Created:
1472
Publication Details:
Verona: Johannes Nicolai de Verona
Page/Sheet:
[a1]r
Image Sequence Number:
a001r
Description:
Decoration: on leaf above the printed text a modern[?] (eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century) large painted portrait of the author Roberto Valturio with a red hat and a brown coat, holding in his left hand a pair of compasses onto a scroll containing a drawing of one of his military engines, the whole in a border quartered in blue and green with black and yellow lines (with a few worm holes which do not appear in either the preceding or following leaves); a contemporary illuminated 8-line initial 'C' with white vine-stem and grotesque decoration defined in blue, green and red, extending into the inner margin and ending in finials with gold dots; at foot of leaf a modern (eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century) looping green and gold laurel wreath with a lilac shield containing an illuminated coat of arms (Cassano Serra of Naples) of two oval shields (arms gold with two bars chequy or nebuly in red and gold) in a decorative maroon frame with a crown (five strawberry leaves).
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Military engineering
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)
Technique Used:
Painting (image-making)
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Paint
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Italy: Veneto: Verona
Item Height:
340 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
JRL22316174
