COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL233100001
Reference Number:
3247
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Manuscript inscription on page of text
Parent Work Title:
Plautin[a]e uiginti comoedi[a]e: lingu[a]e Latin[a]e delici[a]e: magna ex parte emendat[a]e per Georgium Alexandrinum.
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Works. 1472
Creator:
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Merula, Giorgio, -1494
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1472
Publication Details:
Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, for Johannes de Colonia
Page/Sheet:
[a1]r
Image Sequence Number:
a001r
Description:
Eighteenth century[?] manuscript inscription in black ink at head of leaf: "Collegij Societatis Jesu Ratisponae" [i.e. the Jesuit College at Regensburg, in Germany]. Decoration: on leaf a 5-line initial 'I' in blue on a grey ground with red penwork, at foot of leaf a painted unidentified sixteenth-century[?] coat of arms: barry pily of six, sable and argent. The same arms appear in Lord Spencer's copy of Dio Chrysostom, 'De regno' ([Venice: Christophorus Valdarfer, not after 9 November 1471]), accession number 11568.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Latin drama (Comedy)--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Books--Provenance
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Coats of arms
Sub-Category:
Inscriptions
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Painting (image-making)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Italy: Veneto: Venezia: Venice
People Covered:
Collegium Societatis Jesu (Regensburg, Germany)
Item Height:
335 mm
Item Width:
240 mm
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Provenance:
Collegium Societatis Jesu (Regensburg, Germany), 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
JRL233100001
