Printers And Publishers Devices in Incunabula in the University of Illinois Li
Printers And Publishers Devices in Incunabula in the University of Illinois Li
Marian Harman
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(903) (Publisher: Demetrius Chalcondylas) 56. The central figure In this three-fold device of the publisher, Piero Pacini is a crowned dolphin (the arms of his native city, Pescia) flanked by the letters, S P (i. E. Ser Piero). The two smaller designs feature a dove (the arms of the printer). The word Piscia, a variant spelling of Pescia, may also involve a play on the Latin word for fish Discis, hence "dolphin. " Pacini produced three of the few fully il- lustrated books in Florence; the three... parts of his device, like his illustrations, have narrow, decorative borders. (Kristeller U8-50; Husung 10-U2; BMC VI, p. 670; Hind II, p. $28, 531) 57. After only about 1$ months of hard work, the Milan printers, Giovanni Bissoli and Benedetto Mangio produced the monumental Greek lexicon as- cribed to a Suidas, or Suda. Quite understandably, they chose for their device a quotation from Horace ' s Ars poetica Ul3 * Sudavit et al - sit, "He sweat and shivered, " referring to the labor involved in creat- ing a literary work.
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