Daniel BellingradtThe year is 1510, and this holy influencer is proudly showing off his most fanciest item: a girdle book. #bookhistory
And as the paper tool was published in a book, this is #bookhistory too.
3/2 (sorry)
And here is the page with the highlighhted woodcut detail of St. John in full glory. It was published firstly in Dürer’s Apocalypse (1498), as one of 15 full-page images. #bookhistory
Assoc for Scottish Literature“The Chief Relic of the Western World”: Columcille & the Book of Kells
From 2024: Dr Rosemary Power takes us through some of the illuminations in the Book of Kells, as an introduction to an intensely rich & integrated work of art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemcAIGadb4
#Scottish #literature #history #medieval #earlymedieval #bookhistory #arthistory #BookofKells
‘The Chief Relic of the Western World’: Columcille and the Book of Kells
Medieval monks in Easter Ross – and not the Hebridean island of Iona – may have created the intricately decorated 1,200-year-old Book of Kells, according to researchers. A new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack where there was a workshop turning animal hides into vellum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r4jxj0e3jo
#Scottish #literature #medieval #earlymedieval #history #BookHistory #BookofKells #arthistory #CelticArt
Daniel BellingradtAll this is from a 1789 German broadside advertising an acrobatic horse riding show of Johann Kolter of the circus Malmström-Kolter.
