The worship of Priapus (1499), from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

Source: McGill University Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5e2050d4-8514-4fba-aeff-4e0f189caaa9

#quattrocento #woodcuts #dreams #books #antiquity #incunabulum #foliage #love #romance #architecture #eroticism #art #publicdomain

I just typeset an #incunabulum in #InDesign! I used the “Missaali” font by Tommi Syrjänen, available at https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/missaali/, which is in roughly the same style as Gutenberg’s #blackletter. The text comes from the opening of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s “De occulta philosophia libri III” (1533).

I took great care to make the text colour as even as possible, by turning discretionary ligatures off and on wherever appropriate.

I especially enjoyed creating page 4, which contains poetry.

#OnThisDay in #book #history in 1477 - perhaps the very FIRST book was printed in #English / #England. Published by William Caxton, the Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is a Middle English #incunabulum (early book). It was originally Arabic, and was translated from the French by Anthony Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Anthony and Caxton published together in Bruges while in exile. Anthony was later executed by Richard III in 1483.

#histodons #OTD

https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/sutton-the-dicts-and-sayings-of-the-philosophers