Initial from BL Burn 174, f. 3v
White vine initial 'P'(lutarchus) with putti and parrots(?), and matching borders incorporating a roundel depicting Hercules; putti, butterflies and birds; and the arms of the Maffei of Volterra family, at the beginning of Book 1 of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae. Image taken from f. 3v of Noctes Atticae. Written in Latin, with some passages in Greek.
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Creator
- Aulus Gellius
- Aulus Gellius
Subject
- British Library Burney Collection
- BL Burn 174
- f. 3v
- Humanistic, written 'above top line' with vertical catchwords
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- 1450 - 1474
- 1450/1474
Creator
- Aulus Gellius
- Aulus Gellius
Subject
- British Library Burney Collection
- BL Burn 174
- f. 3v
- Humanistic, written 'above top line' with vertical catchwords
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- 1450 - 1474
- 1450/1474
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain. Attribution to the British Library is recommended. For further details please visit: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp
Places
- Italy, Central (Rome)
Identifier
- c0322-08
Extent
- 295 x 200 (205 x 110)
Format
- JPEG
Language
- lat ; grc
Is part of
- http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1419
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1348
Relations
- Noctes Atticae
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-03-26T10:23:24.445Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2015-05-15T11:08:19.215Z