Friday, 6 October 2017

The owl and the heiress: The life of one book over six centuries

I subscribe to the State Library of Victoria's newsletter, in which they have some great articles and one of those articles was on a book.
The book in question is an edition of the Liber de vita ac moribus philosophorum poetarum veterum (The lives and manners of the ancient philosophers and poets). It was printed in 1479 by Frederick Creussner in Nuremberg, Germany, one of the first great centres of printing.

The article is very interesting and well worth a read.

https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/the-owl-and-the-heiress-the-life-of-one-book-over-six-centuries/


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