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dc.contributor.author	Lippincott Kristen
dc.title	Hyginus, Michael Scot (?) and the Tyranny of Technology in the Early Renaissance
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Whereas the earliest history of illustrations accompanying the text of Hyginus’s De Astronomia remains a mystery, the iconography found in fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts is relatively straight-forward and fairly consistent. Intriguingly, however, the woodblock images in the first illustrated edition of the text (Venice: E. Ratdolt, 1482) do not appear to follow any known Hyginian model, but closely resemble the idiosyncratic drawings that accompany the texts of Michael Scot’s Liber introductorius. This paper explores current assumptions about Ratdolt’s pictorial model and traces the impact of his illustrations on subsequent generations of astro-mythological treatises.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-09-01
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-31
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-01-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-7543-440-3/hyginus-michael-scot-and-the-tyranny-of-technology/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-165-2/ANT-13-10
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-7543-440-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-165-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	Book illustration
dc.subject	Book illustration
dc.subject	Illumination
dc.subject	Illumination
dc.subject	Incunables Classical tradition
dc.subject	Incunables Classical tradition
dc.subject	Italian humanism
dc.subject	Italian humanism
dc.subject	Manuscripts
dc.subject	Manuscripts

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Hyginus, Michael Scot (?) and the Tyranny of Technology in the Early Renaissance

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Whereas the earliest history of illustrations accompanying the text of Hyginus’s De Astronomia remains a mystery, the iconography found in fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts is relatively straight-forward and fairly consistent. Intriguingly, however, the woodblock images in the first illustrated edition of the text (Venice: E. Ratdolt, 1482) do not appear to follow any known Hyginian model, but closely resemble the idiosyncratic drawings that accompany the texts of Michael Scot’s Liber introductorius. This paper explores current assumptions about Ratdolt’s pictorial model and traces the impact of his illustrations on subsequent generations of astro-mythological treatises.

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Sept. 1, 2017

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March 31, 2017

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Jan. 13, 2017

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978-88-7543-440-3

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978-88-6969-165-2

Keywords: Incunables Classical tradition • Manuscripts • Italian humanism • Astronomy • Illumination • Book illustration

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