{"id":2163,"date":"2013-05-10T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:37:49","slug":"new-acquisition-dante-miniature-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2013\/05\/10\/new-acquisition-dante-miniature-book\/","title":{"rendered":"1878 Dante: Smallest Movable Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Minimature1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2164 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Minimature1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Miniature book resting on the palm of a hand\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Minimature1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Minimature1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is the first of a long string of announcements of new acquisitions that we will be announcing, so follow our blog to hear all the latest!<\/p>\n<p>Tiny is the only word to describe this 58mm volume <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=UIOWA&amp;request=007230183\" target=\"_blank\">La divina commedia di Dante.\u00a0 <\/a>This is the second smallest edition of Dante ever printed and is notable for using the smallest movable type ever cast.\u00a0 It was printed in Milan in 1878 by\u00a0Ulrico Hoepli.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to test your eyesight, stop by to give this one a try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Miniature2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2165\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Miniature2-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Miniature2\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Miniature2-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/05\/Miniature2.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a long string of announcements of new acquisitions that we will be announcing, so follow our blog to hear all the latest! Tiny is the only word to describe this 58mm volume La divina commedia di Dante.\u00a0 This is the second smallest edition of Dante ever printed and is notable<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2013\/05\/10\/new-acquisition-dante-miniature-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;1878 Dante: Smallest Movable Type&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[219,38,74,28],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}