Detail View: Rylands Collection: Frogs ask Jupiter for a King
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Image Number:
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JRL022933tr
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Reference Number:
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Incubable 7776
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Frogs ask Jupiter for a King
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Parent Work Title:
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Vita et Fabulae
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Aesop's fables
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Creator:
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Aesop
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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1476
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Publication Details:
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Ulm: Johann Zainer
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Description:
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Illustrated: hand-coloured woodcut: The Frogs ask Jupiter for a King. Text in Latin and German. Rotunda typeface.
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Language Code:
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gmh-DE
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Language Code:
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lat
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Subject:
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Classical literature
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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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Illustrated works
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Technique Used:
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Woodcut (process)
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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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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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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References:
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'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Vol. 82, Nos. 2 and 3, 2000.
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Image Creation Technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, May 2005
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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