print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1900,1019.183
- Description
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A table showing a hierarchy; the top row defines the categories which are being ranked (minerale, vegetabile, sensibile, rationale, virtus, luxuria, gula, acedia); each category is symbolized by an element (petra, arbor, equus, homo, studiosus, sensualis, vitalis, mineralis) which stands on a lists of states it is capable of (est, vivit, sentit, intelligit); the hierarchy forms a pyramid, with petra and mineralis at the bottom, and homo and studiosus sharing the top; illustration to Boethius' 'De Topicis Differentiis' ? (Paris: Henri Estienne, 1511). c.1510
Woodcut, and letterpress
- Production date
- 1510 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 119 millimetres (image size)
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Width: 155 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The woodcut was used in Charles de Bouvelles's "Que hoc volumine continentur. Liber de intellectu. Liber de sensu. Liber de nichilo. Ars oppositorum. Liber de generatione. Liber de sapiente. Liber de duodecim numeris. Epistole complures... De numeris perfectis. De mathematicis rosis. De geometricis corporibus. De geometricis supplementis" (Paris: Henri Estienne & Jean Petit, 1 February 1510), page 119.
Also see 1900,1019.182 from the same book.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: De Topicis Differentiis (1511-1518)
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,1019.183
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Harley 5922.284 (British Library MSS number)
