Detail View: Early Printing Collection: JRL22317968
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Image Number:
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JRL22317968
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Reference Number:
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10481
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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 of Maffeo Vallaresso
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Parent Work Title:
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[G]eographia[m] multos scripsisse nouimus Pater Beatissime Paule .II. Venete. Pont. Maxime. tempo[rum] nostroru[m] felicitas et gloria. cum eiusmodi sit doctrine opus ...
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Geography. Latin. 1469
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Creator:
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Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
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Creator Role:
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Translator
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Creator:
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Tifernate, Gregorio, 1414-approximately 1462
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Creator Role:
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Translator
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Creator:
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Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
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Creator Role:
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Editor
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Creator:
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Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475
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Creator Role:
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Editor
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Creator:
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Andronicus Callistus, -1478
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Creator Role:
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Editor
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Creator:
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Birago, Lampugnino, -1472
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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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1469
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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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[a4]r
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Image Sequence Number:
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a004r
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Description:
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Decoration: illuminated four-sided border by a Venetian artist in the style of the Pico Master of flowers and leaves in blue, gold, green, and maroon in an intricate design of heavily filigreed curling black pen-work and gold dots, the gilt with punch-dotting; in the lower margin two angel supporters (on the left dressed in maroon with green wings, on the right dressed in green with maroon wings) hold a wreath quartered in blue, green, and maroon, containing the coat of arms of Maffeo Vallaresso (1415-1495) with the initials M V and a gold cross (see description above); the outer margin also contains a black eagle displayed, a thrush-like bird in gold and maroon, a black cockerel, and a wreath divided horizontally in green and maroon around a scene of two deer lying down with countryside in the background; the whole border outlined in blue, gold, and maroon (outer edge) and in blue (inner edge); with a 7-line initial 'S' in maroon containing a half-length portrait of Strabo dressed in yellow and cloaked in red, wearing a red hat, holding an orb in his left hand and pointing upwards with his right hand, on a gold ground edged in black.
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Language:
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Latin
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Subject:
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Geography, Ancient--Early works to 1800
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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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Coats of arms
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Sub-Category:
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Illuminations [paintings]
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Technique Used:
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Printing (process)
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Technique Used:
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Painting (image-making)
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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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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People Covered:
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Vallaresso, Maffeo, 1415-1495
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People Covered:
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Strabo
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Item Height:
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422 mm
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Item Width:
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310 mm
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Provenance:
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Vallaresso, Maffeo, 1415-1495, former owner.
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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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