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Portrait of Johann Aventinus

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

(engraver)
1500-1599

Title

Portrait of Johann Aventinus

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 17 cm
Width: 11.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3127

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower image & recto : : IOHANNES AVENTINUS BOIVS. / Scripsit Aventinus LINGVAE PRIMORDIA GRAECÆ, / Ac patria ANNALES historiamque suæ. / Multa etiam cæcis que sunt suppreßa tenebris [semicolon] / Hæc quorum tibi sit, Lector, imago loco. / 38 //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower margin & recto : later Witt inscription : Johann Aventinus (Turmair) / (1466-1534) //

Inscription: inscription : pencil (?) : lower margin & recto : later Witt inscription (?) : There is a copy by R. Boissant (?) in Bibliotheca Chaleogryalion (?) 1658 (?) //

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