Early Printing Collection: JRL22316174

Image Number: JRL22316174
Reference Number: 9924
Link to Catalogue: <A href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1lr7mpn/alma9913580304401631">UoM online catalogue</a>
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
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Educational Notes: Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead: Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead: John Gandy
Academic Project Lead: Ed Potten