Complete Works of Pliny the Elder by Pliny the Elder

The beer clocks in at 8 percent ABV, consistent with the beer style, and it's credited with popularizing the double IPA. Pliny the Elder is a double IPA brewed with amarillo, centennial, CTZ and simcoe hops. So how did a fairly obscure character in ancient Roman history become such a cult favorite icon in a totally different way? This is the legend of Pliny the Elder (not the person). In the beer world, Pliny the Elder is the end all be all of double IPAs. In pop culture, Pliny the Elder doesn't have the same name recognition as his ancient Roman peers like Julius Caesar or Nero. This time: Pliny the Elder, a double IPA that's as legendary as its namesake. 1485 coat of arms painted into illuminated border) – early marginalia and manicules.Everything you need to know about the most iconic beers in history from grocery staples to cult favorites. Provenance: Counts of Ottoni, possibly Alessandro Ottoni (d. 17th-century Italian brown morocco, covers elaborately gilt with empty shield at center (lacking ties, subtle repairs to spine). 23 37 illuminated white vine initials (first 3 leaves with inner margins repaired, occasional minimal spots, final leaf with some worming). Painted white vine-stem border with coat of arms and heightened in gold on f. Numerous initials and rubrics supplied in red & blue alternately. 358 leaves (of 360 without first and last blanks). Pliny, an enthusiastic student of nature unto death, ultimately perished while observing the eruption of Vesuvius. Another early owner has left marginalia and manicules, with special attention to sections on the wonders of India and referencing the Hieroglyphica of Piero Valeriano. The Ottoni coat of arms indicates that this copy was illuminated for that family, possible Count Alessandro Ottoni. Historia naturalis is also the most important early source on the history of art, outlining not just the history of ancient painting but the materials and techniques of the visual arts-including those used in the decoration of this book. This copy is illuminated with 37 fine burnished gold initials and a full-page white vine-stem border introducing the beginning of Pliny’s text.

This sixth Latin edition is one of the finest specimens from the press of Michael Manzolus. When it was first published in Venice in 1469, this work marked the first appearance of any scientific text in print.

Treviso: Michael Manzolus, 1479.Ī beautifully illuminated incunable edition of Pliny ’s “encyclopedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world” ( PMM). Beautifully illuminated incunable of the Natural History

Complete Works of Pliny the Elder by Pliny the Elder