Show threadDaniel Bellingradt2d ago
Bonus: this is Dürer-drawn art, and a hand-colored version can be accessed as a digital copy over here, #bookhistory: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...

'ASTROLABIUM IMPERATORIUM TOTI...
'ASTROLABIUM IMPERATORIUM TOTIUS HABITABILIS ORBIS NOBILIORIBUS PARTIBUS INSERVIENS : Reverendo & Magnifico d[omi]no Icobo de Bannissis Sa. Cesa. Maies. Consiliario & Secretario Eccl[esi]ar[um] Tridentine & Antverpien[se]. Decano digniss. Ioan. Stabius Au. sese commendat' - Details | MDZ

Show threadDaniel Bellingradt3d ago
By the way, the print is a #xylographica. That means it is one of few examples left of the art of European block printing (in the second half of the 15th century). Basically a woodcut with blocks carved to include both text and image. #bookhistory
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The paper flap is doing the show. #bookhistory
Show threadDaniel BellingradtApr 17
paging #bookhistory #earlymodern #newshistory and #mediahistory
Show threadDaniel BellingradtApr 17
And here is the page with this detail in full glory, a page rich of details that need more interpretation than I can offer today, from this book: "Summa philosophie naturalis prestantissimi viri Magistri Pauli Ueneti" (1525). #bookhistory
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#bookhistory #skystorians 🦉 🐉 🦅 🐋
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From the woodcut spaces of #earlymodern #bookhistory to 2020s memes of the online worlds.
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#earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
Fairy tale illustrationsApr 12
The Dreamer of Dreams by the Queen of Roumania, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. First edition, Hodder & Stoughton 1916.
An enchanting volume, luminous from the very cover. The illustrations are as evocative as the story itself.
It is a tale of a court painter who paints for the King. In the portrait he is creating, only the Queen’s eyes are missing. In a dream, he beholds a woman’s face with eyes he can never forget. Frustrated, he is haunted by the knowledge that he cannot paint those eyes unless he sees them in reality.
He sets out on a dreamlike quest to seek her out.
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