Blog Posts From Library & Archives Tagged With incunabula http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog Natural History Museum Library and Collections Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:10:08 GMT Jive SBS 4.5.6.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2011-06-01T13:10:08Z Item of the month No. 9 (May 2011) - Pliny the old man of the Library http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/2011/06/01/item-of-the-month-no-9-may-2011--pliny-the-old-man-of-the-library <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:30948b1b-53da-4722-88da-f269a27f55bd] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1790-14518/May+11+pliny_001324_IA.jpg"><img alt="May 11 pliny_001324_IA.jpg" class="jive-image" height="566" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1790-14518/388-566/May+11+pliny_001324_IA.jpg" style="float: right;" width="388"/></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span>The oldest book held by the Library was printed in 1469. It is the Naturalis Histori&#230; written in AD 77-79 by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79). This 'Natural History' consists of 37 sections and is an encyclopedia of learning and art connected with nature. Pliny studied original authorities and used excerpts to compile a range of sections in the encyclopedia covering mathematical and physical description of the world, geography, ethnography, anthropology and human physiology, zoology, botany, pharmacology, mining and mineralogy.<br/> <br/>The library copy was printed in Venice by Johan and Wendelin of Speyer and was one of the first classical manuscripts to be printed. The volume consists of 355 leaves, with a full page having 50 lines. The text contains some illuminated and coloured lettering.<br/>It is an example of an incunabula, an early book printed before 1501.<br/><br/></span></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:30948b1b-53da-4722-88da-f269a27f55bd] --> library_item_of_the_month pliny_the_elder_(23-79) incunabula Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:45:52 GMT http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/2011/06/01/item-of-the-month-no-9-may-2011--pliny-the-old-man-of-the-library John Rose 2011-06-01T13:45:52Z 6 years, 1 month ago 0 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/comment/item-of-the-month-no-9-may-2011--pliny-the-old-man-of-the-library http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1790
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