Day 23
When considering Aldus Manutius, please consider the following
words:
- Venice
- Jenson's 1470 Roman type
- Aldine's 5 volume Aristotle
- Greek fonts (6)
- 'divine proportion'
- Griffo
- Andrea (& Maria) Torresani
- Greek style binding
- "Hasten Slowly"
- The Anchor and the Porpoise
- Hypterotomachia Poliphili
- unread book
- Colonna
- cursive, corvisa ,chancery, Aldino
- Aldine will
- octavo, book of the month
- Neaccademia
- Grolier
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You will find this to be an exceellent site
for Aldus:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~aldine/aldus.html
When studying early Aldus, here are some images
to consider carefully:
- Jenson's Roman
- Aldine Book of Hours with grammar
- early Greek fonts - this one in the Aristotle set (1495-1498)
- Bembo - 1496
- Hypterotomachia Poliphili: double
page spread, first page, woodcut
- illuminated Aldus
- Epistole of St Catherine - 1500
- 1501 Virgil
- a later title page with
device
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