Crossword clues for aldine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aldine \Al"dine\ (?; 277), a. (Bibliog.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type font, 1837, from Aldus Manutius (1450-1515), Venetian printer who used it in his popular editions of Greek and Roman classics. His name is a Latinized form of Italian Aldo Manuzio, the first name short for Teobaldo (see Theobald), and, like so many Italian masc. given names, of Germanic origin. The device characteristic of Aldine books is a figure of a dolphin on an anchor.
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Wikipedia
Aldine may refer to:
- Aldine, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Salem County, New Jersey
- Aldine, Houston, Texas, a former town in Harris County, Texas, United States
- Aldine Independent School District, a school district in Houston, Texas, United States
- Aldine Press, a 15th-century printing office started by Aldus Manutius
- Aldine Publishing Company
- The Aldine, a monthly American art journal published in New York from 1868 to 1879
- Ruth Aldine
Usage examples of "aldine".
Aldus would not have minded so much the filching of the text, but when the unscrupulous printers ventured to copy his types and his original style of typography, and sold their counterfeit copies as the product of the Aldine Press, his indignation knew no bounds.
His large library included a fine collection of Aldine editions and Greek and Latin MSS.
Sharon came out of the Old Warsaw Bakery, on Aldine Street, and let him hug her.
Warsaw Bakery on the comer of Aldine Street and Chanrellor A venue in Newark, N.
His labors were of the greatest value to the overworked head of the Aldine es-tablishment, and Aldus always recognized his debt of gratitude.
It passed through many editions and was honored by being pirated by the Giunta, famous printer publishers in Florence, who even copied the famous Aldine mark of the Dolphin and Anchor.
Aldus himself was the first president of the organization, and the members included readers and correctors of the Aldine Press, priests and doctors, the cultured nobility of Venice, Padua, Rome, Bologna, and Lucca, Greek scholars from Candia, and even the great Erasmus from Rotterdam.
During these periods the universities north of the Alps had to discontinue t heir classical instruction because soldiers in the passes prevented the Aldine classical texts from being transported from Venice to their destination.
Marcus Musurus, the chief associate of Aldus in the Aldine Press, was also a Cretan, and between him and Blastus existed the closest friendship.
Paulus was too young to assume charge of the business, so Andrea de Torresani combined his own printing establishment with the Aldine Press.
As a result, many of the Aldine publications are dedicated to Grolier, and one copy of every book was especially printed on vellum for this fas-tidious collector.
Manutius assumed charge of the Aldine Press when he was eighteen years old, but he was unable to combine, as his father had, his undoubted scholarly attainments with the business necessities.
Paulus was in poor health during most of the years he struggled with the problems of the Aldine Press, and later at Rome.
He shewed me the Aldine anchor on his coat of arms which has sixteen quarters.
Aldus Manutius--that famous edition of Aristotle, the first ever printed in Greek, with the Aldine mark of anchor and dolphin on the title-page.