Incipit libellus de uita & morib[us] ph[ilosoph]or[rum] & poetar[um]

Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?, Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, printer, Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860, former owner, Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, autographer · [Nuremberg : Anton Koberger] · 1 picture

This is a Latin incunable printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger, a fifteenth-century printer, presenting short lives of ancient philosophers and poets attributed to Walter Burley. The one picture is a small round portrait medallion of a bearded old man in a close cap and ruffled collar, cut in fine hatched line on a cream ground. A designer might take from it the tight circular framing of a head and the dense cross-hatching used to model a face and beard.

Philosophers, Ancient

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