Detail View: Rylands Collection: Lower cover
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Image Number:
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JRL1505087
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Reference Number:
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Aldine 3359
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Lower cover
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Parent Work Title:
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Vergilius
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Virgilius. Vergilivs
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Works
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Creator:
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Virgil
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Date Created:
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1501-04
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Publication Details:
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Venetiis: Ex aedibus Aldi Romani
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Page/Sheet:
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Lower cover
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Description:
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Seventeenth or eighteenth-century full brown goatskin; miniature painted vignette of Aldus Manuzio set into the cover, with an oval border of gilt tools; gilt-tooled board edges.
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Keyword:
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Aldus Manutius; Aldine Press.
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Subject:
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Bookbinding
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Subject:
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Classical literature
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Subject:
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Epic poetry
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Subject:
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Epic poetry, Latin
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Subject:
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Aeneas (Legendary character)--Poetry
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Sub-Category:
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Bindings
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Sub-Category:
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Portraits
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Technique Used:
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Painting (image-making)
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Technique Used:
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Gold tooling
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Medium:
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Gold leaf
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Support:
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Goatskin
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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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Provenance:
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Pisani family, 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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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2014-11-04
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2014-11
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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