Detail View: Early Printing Collection: JRL233100001

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: 
Creative Commons License
Educational Notes: 
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead: 
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead: 
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead: 
Ed Potten