{"id":3609,"date":"2015-02-09T19:06:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2015-02-09T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:06:54","slug":"aldus-manutius-a-man-with-a-plan-a-printshop-and-a-pretty-sweet-colophon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2015\/02\/09\/aldus-manutius-a-man-with-a-plan-a-printshop-and-a-pretty-sweet-colophon\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldus Manutius: A man with a plan, a printshop, and a pretty sweet colophon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2015\/01\/manutius.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2015\/01\/manutius.gif\" alt=\"manutius\" width=\"210\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aldus Manutius was born in Italy during the Italian Renaissance.\u00a0 He became the leading printer of his time and is responsible for many literary accomplishments, including the invention of italic type for use in a printing press and the semicolon.\u00a0 Most importantly, Manutius was one of the first people to publish small, pocket editions of books that more people could actually afford.\u00a0 This month, we\u2019ll be featuring a few of the books in our collection\u00a0which were published by this incredible scholar on our <a href=\"http:\/\/uispeccoll.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a>, so we thought we would give you all a little more background information.<\/p>\n<p>Manutius\u2019 goal was to preserve ancient Greek literature by printing personal, usable editions for everyone to own.\u00a0 He accomplished this by organizing the famous Aldine Press.\u00a0 Through the Aldine Press, Manutius was able to produce the first printed editions of many Greek and Latin classics.\u00a0 These included works such as The Odyssey, The Iliad, and The Divine Comedy.\u00a0 Aldus Manutius\u2019 work is always recognizable by the colophon (or inscription, which gives details about the book, usually found at the end of a work), which pictures a dolphin wrapped around an anchor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2015\/01\/colophon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2736 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2015\/01\/colophon-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"colophon\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here at the University of Iowa Special Collections and University Archives, we are honored to house such an incredible collection of his works.\u00a0\u00a0Keep an\u00a0eye out for posts about Manutius on\u00a0our Tumblr, as well as other social media.\u00a0 If you have any questions about these items, feel free to ask us on our social media, or email us at <a href=\"mailto:lib-spec@uiowa.edu\">lib-spec@uiowa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Kelly<\/p>\n<p>*Photo of Manutius from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldussociety.com\/\">www.aldussociety.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**Photo of Colophon taken from the UI Special Collections and University Archives edition of <em>The Odyssey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aldus Manutius was born in Italy during the Italian Renaissance.&nbsp; He became the leading printer of his time and is responsible for many literary accomplishments, including the invention of italic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}