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06444

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Description

Bridwell Library's copy of the fifth edition of Lucan's epic poem on the battle of Pharsalus (48 BCE) bears a painted coat-of-arms depicting a leaping white hound on a red field belonging to Wenceslaus Brack (d. 1495).

Creator

Lucan, 39–65 and Guerinus, Juvenis, printer.

Source

06444. LUCAN (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, 39–65 CE). Pharsalia. Venice: Juvenus Guerinus, 14 May 1477.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

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Please cite Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU, as the source of this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained by contacting Special Collections (bridsc@smu.edu).

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Type

Chancery folio

Collection

Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe

Citation

Lucan, 39–65 and Guerinus, Juvenis, printer. , “06444,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed April 24, 2024, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1283.