#early printed books

[mtlibrary]

This 16th-century artwork is of a 'haut', which are said to live in the trees. It has been identified with species of three-toed sloths such as Bradypus variegatus which are found in the forests of Central and South America. This artwork comes from 'Cosmographie universelle' (1575) by the French explorer and writer Andre Thevet (1516-1590). The book describes the history and geography of the lands in which Thevet had travelled. The two volumes contain over 1000 pages divided into 23 books. This woodcut is from chapter XIII of book XXI.

#library #law library #libraries #rare books #history #books & libraries #rarebook #london #mtlibrary #inns of court #sloth #south america #16th century #early printed books #explorer #nature #animals #wildlife #1500s #artwork

[nyxshadowhawk]

Have you ever wondered what characters from Greek mythology would look like in a medieval AU? Wonder no more:

In the first picture are Hercules on the top left, Menelaus and Helen in the middle, Paris underneath them, and Hector and Agamemnon underneath Hercules. In the second picture are Janus, Saturn, Picus, and Faunus on the right, and Juno on the left.

(This is the Nuremberg Chronicle, a fifteenth-century German incunabulum.)

#early modern #incunabula #early printed books #medieval studies #greek mythology #greek myth art #trojan war #Hercules #Heracles #Agamemnon #menelaus #helen of troy #faunus #saturnus #Juno #janus

[u-mspcoll]

Upcoming Exhibit and Lecture: Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut

Valerius Maximus (1st c. AD). Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Italy. 15th c. Parchment,126 fols. Fol. 5r

Full-page illumination from Carta Executoria de hidalguia de sangre a pedimento de Don Juan de Mansilla como curador de Doña Francisca de Mansilla, hija de Baltasar de Mansilla, vecinos de la villa de Aranda de Duero. Valladolid, 1636 Parchment, 93 fols. Fol. 2r

Full-page woodcut depicting the procession of Priapus, the Greek god of animal and vegetable fertility. Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours du songe de Poliphile Ed: Jean Martin Paris: Jean le Blanc for Jacques Kerver, 1561 Fol. 69r. Loan courtesy of William P. Heidrich

Come explore a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts! The display will be up in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room from 6 September to 14 December.

And join us on Wednesday 13 September at 4p in the Hatcher Gallery event space or on zoom a for lecture based on the exhibit.

We hope to see you there!

#events #exhibits #special collections #special collections libraries #libraries #archives #libraries and archives #special collections and archives #manuscripts #manuscript culture #early printed books #book illustrations #illustrated books #illustrations #illumination #illuminated manuscripts #manuscript illumination #woodcuts

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #early printed books #Romania #manuscripts

[othmeralia]

Look at this watermark!

Recently I was working with my coworker, the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, to help broaden my knowledge of rare books, paper making, book binding, etc. We started talking about watermarks, their uses and how to identify them, and he pulled out our copy of Liber chronicarum (1493) along with a backlight. What better way to learn about watermarks than to see one lit up!

#rare books #watermarks #paper making #history of the book #incunabula #incunable #old books #book history #nuremberg chronicle #liber chronicarum #early printed books #othmer library #othmeralia

[riesenfeldcenter]

Today’s woodcut is brought to you by the letter ‘F.’

I spy two birds and a dragon, but no turkey... darn. Happy Thanksgiving!

#woodcut #historiated initial #birds #dragons #gothic type #16th century #legal history #woodcut wednesday #riesenfeld center #rare books #special collections #law books #old books #early printed books #umn law #university of minnesota

[jamesgraybooksellerworld]

Two huge Books by Gaspar Schott

Physica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Naturæ Et Artis Libris XII. Comprehensa, Quibus pleraq;, quæ de Angelis, Dæmonibus, Hominibus, Spectris, Energumenis, Monstris, Portentis, Animalibus, Meteoris. and Technica curiosa, sive Mirabilia artis, libris XII “Gaspar Schott, German physicist, born 5 February, 1608, at Konigshofen; died 12 or 22 May, 1666, at Augsburg. He entered the Society of Jesus 20…

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#Artificial Magic #Centaur #Dragons #early printed books #Jesuit #Jesuit Science #Kircher #mechanics #Monstrous births Imaginary beings #Natural history #Otto Van Guericke #Pneumatics #Vaccume

[7facedmarbleeyedtransitorydream]

#Hypnerotomachia Poliphili #Poliphili #polia #strife of love in a dream #rennaissance #early printed books #engraving

[daguerreotyping]

Unknown Photographer, Two Young Men, c. 1850

#I've posted this before but it was a scan of a print in a book; this file is SO much higher quality! #please note however that I've edited for contrast—click link to see original at Met Museum site #19th century #1800s #1850s #19th century fashion #men's fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #early photography #19th century photography #daguerreotype #gay interest

[greencheekconure27]

Some details from Maria Sybilla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensum (1705)

(I'm afraid my phone camera isn't quite doing it justice but still.)

@onenicebugperday

#maria sybilla merian #early 18th century #scientific illustration #art #women in science #book illustration #art detail #metamorphosis insectorum surinamensum #women artists #early modern science #18th century #insects #botanical #biology #beautiful books #prints

[wikagirl]

We'll bite for the hand that feeds us

Oh the humiliation.

He was supposed to be judge of hell, messenger of god, warrior in the lords name, unshaken, undefeateble, eternal as the glory of the lord himself. And yet here he was, defeated.

He had never experienced something close to this before, not in the battles he guided with hidden hand on earth and not in the battles he fought against the demon hordes and fallen angels before he became the judge. A machine, man made, creation of gods creation, had bested him. No trickery, no scheming, it had bested him fair and square in a show of skill through battle.

He had fled the battlefield in a mighty outcry of rage, the fury over his loss bruning bright. But then, back in heaven, he suddenly felt...exhausted? He had felt tired before, from fighting, from carrying out the endless mission to spread the lords light and uphold the holy oder of things, but he had never felt exhausted, not to this extend.

The moment he appeared in heaven, just behind the mighty golden gates, he sank to the floor. No limb would move, no matter how hard he tried. He had been wounded, a thing he was used to as a warrior, but for some reason these wounds stung so much more as his body tried to heal and close the holes the bullets had left in his flesh where his cuirass did not cover or failed to stop them. And so he had no choice but to simply lay there, patheticly, as he bled out onto the white and gold marble walkways that made up the paths leading through heaven, staining it's pristine beauty with his dark red blood.

A simple virtue was the first to notice and approach him, the blue winged orb circeling his body and giving of a slight hum. There was a concerned, almost sad, tone to the otherworldy noises it made as it observed before dashing off with a wail not too different from a songbirds warning cry to alert the rest of the swarm.

He tried to pick himself up a couple of times, attempting to at least prop himself up on his arms, but his body failedd him and gave out after just a few seconds every time he tried. But he didn't need to try for long, he soon found himself picked up by the elbows, barely held up by who he found to be other heaven made angels. They wore armor similiar in style to his, maybe a bit less detailed, and their hands that weren't draggin him around by the elbows wielded gold and silver spears. They were soldiers, plenty of which he himself had led into battle many of times.

One might think that, as a higher ranking angel, the soldiers would be nice enough to at least help him up fully, let him lean onto them as he patehticly limped to meet with the council, but no. They simply dragged him by the elbows, twisting his wounded and allready hurting arms to only make them hurt more, the metal of his tassets and thighboots screeching disgustingly across the floor, leaving behind scratches and smears of blood as they dragged him along. He wouldn't be surprised if lucifer himself could hear the disgusting screatching sound all the way down in his little frozen pit.

It felt like an eternity of humiliation, getting dragged through the streets of heaven like an unruly childy by the scruff of its shirt, they hadn't even made it past the gardens yet and still for some reason the guards...stopped? Garbiel swore he could hear the joints in his neck creak like an old chair as he slowly lifted is head to see what was going on. And there they were.

Mankind.

Or rather the humans that had made it into heaven. Virtues, both lesser and greater, and they were blocking the way.

Well it definetly wasn't ALL the human souls that made it to heaven, the gardens weren't big enough for that, but still a sizable crowd had sown up, and they seemed angry. The lesser virtues sung tunes similiar to the one that had inspected gabriel earlier, their wings fluttering angrily and some of them zipping about restlessly. The higher virtues, those granted a bodily form, looked equally angry, especially those that had been granted to keep human or at least human-like faces in their heavenly bodies. No angry wasn't a strong enough word for that, they looked outright PISSED.

The soldiers that were dragging him commanded them to make way, but the virtues refused. An earshattering outcry rang through the gardens as the virtues dared to refuse the orders of higher ranking angels and some especially brave ones even dared to step forward and crowd them.

„Where do you think you're taking him??“ one of them boldy questiond. A greater virtue, but still on the smaller side, stepped right in front of the guards, her hands braced on her hips, stance wide and stable, and wings flare wide open. She wore a red sash draped around her body, a board with a candle and paper was tucked into it around her hip, she was one of the scribes under metatron no doubt.

The soldiers told the virtues once more to get lost and that they were taking him to the council, to recieve judgement over his failure.

„Judgement? In this state?“ she greater virtue spoke up again, her voice proud and mocking „The man is barely with us anymore, how is he supposed to recieve judgement if he can't even hear the councils verdict?“ she said, sending a round of chatter through the crowd of virtues followed by some few outcries from the other higher virtues present.

„Let him rest!“ one of them cried out from the crowd.

„Hasn't he done enough allready?“

„He looks so tired.“

„Give him a break!“ the virtues demanded.

The soldiers reminded them one more time of their position in heaven, and that all the virtues would recieve punishment if they kept interfering with direct orders from the council, their words fell on deaf ears a nother wave of protest rang out from the crowd.

The daring virtue with the red sash spoke up again, surely this one must have been sent to heaven for her sense of justice and fearless pursuit of it. She stepped forward, got so close that he had to crane his neck to see more than just her greaves.

„ So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.“ she quoted from the holy scripture „Those are the teachings, those are the words of the lord brought to us by his prophets when we still walked on earth. If I were wounded and weak, I'd hope for the help of my fellows, I'd hope at least one of them would be willing to extend me their hand, especially if I spent all my existence fighting in their name when they were too weak to do it by themself. By denying us to extend our hand and denying him the help and rest he clearly needs YOU are in direct defiance of the will of the lord.“ she accused, jabbing a finger pointedly at the helmet of one of the soldiers.

The accused soldier smacked her hand away with the pole of his spear „You are not like us, we are heaven born and as such it is our most holy duty to enforce the lords will, by failing to do so he has violated our highest of commands and therefore he must be judged accordingly. As is the will of the heavenly council“

„is the council the lord?“ the girl asked simply as she took a few steps backwards, to which the guard replied with a confused and stuttered „n-no? They simply rule in his absence, until the father returns“.

„Then why is the council acting like their oders are above the lords word? So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.“ she quoted once more and shook her head in disappointment „ The council has fallen victim to their own self-importance it would seem. And yet they dare to claim that they are reenforcing these teachings when they are clearly going against them, and against one of their own too! Seems like the council is made up of just a bunch of HYPOCRITES.“

Her last words rang loud and clear through the gardens of heaven, even the crowd went silent for a moment, a moment in which he could feel the grasp of the soldiers slipping on his arms as he saw them point their spears at her while he himself made a quick decent towards the floor.

A small lesser virtue, the one that had inspected him before mayhaps, quickly squeezed itself in between his chestplate and the cold marble, softening the fall and keeping him up just enough to see the mass of both greater and lesser virtues turn from the calming bright blue that they usually were to a sea of hot burning red as the soldiers charged the brave greater virtue that still stood there, unmoving.

Her hands were calmly clasped behind her as he stared directly into his vizor, her fellow virtues quite literally throwing themselves at the attacking soldiers „Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends We both know that what ever the council may decide will not be a true and just judgement for the scale of your percieved offence. You and your brothers have fought for us all your life and we understand that's what you were made for, but still, we never got the chance to return the favour. So, just this once, let us be the ones fighting for you.“

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Some tidbits (words and explanations for shit that might be unclear):

A Cuirass is a metal chest plate, the backplate is called a plackart

Tassets are the metal bits on his hips, in medieval armor they are normaly attached to a thing called „faulds“which is an armor piece that is supposed to protect your waist and attached to the cuirass bzt gabe is clearly missing it cuz his whole ass waistline and tummy is just out and about, so he has them on a belt instead.

I called his boots thighboots bc that is what that type of legarmor is usually called in mmorpgs, but technicly those are a full set of a cuisse (the thigh bit), a poleyn (knee bit), greave (shin bit), and sabaton (the feet bit)

I wrote that lucifer is in a frozen pit because the game is loosely based off/inspired by dantes inferno and in the inferno our boy luci, along with all the other traitors, is frozen up to his nips in a lake at the deepest point of hell (the humans that were sent there are deeper in the ice than just that but that's not important here) But yeah for heaven I did NOT take notes from the divine comedy (the thing that dantes inferno is only part 1/3 of) because...yeah what the fuck even is that??? so I just took inspiration from the Mt.Gulg dungeon in ffxiv bc shit do be looking pretty angelic.

Metatron is often credited as the heavenly scribe

„So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.“ Matthew 7:12

„So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.“ Galatians 6:10

„Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.“ John 15:13

...so yeah um this whole fic was born out of this beautiful youtube comment

under a lyrics video from „with hearts aligned“ from ffxiv (don't look it up if you're planning on playing the endwalker expansion, big spoiler!) and also kinda by how humans will get very passionate about the people they bond with and will do a lot of risky shit in order to help eachother. In this case I though that the humans and gabriel have shepheard/hearding dog kinda dynamic...and in this case the other dogs find out what the herd does when you decide to take a bite at their bonded hearding dog (there is this lady one village over who has sheep and a dog that lives with the sheep 24/7, the dog got attacked by a person with a knife once, the sheep did not like that at all)

#ultrakill #ultrakill fanfiction #ultrakill oc #the scribe #she has no name yet #me surry #gabriel ultrakill #gabriel pov #fun fact: before dantes inferno the idea of hell was simply a void with complete absence of god #so absicly like the void was before god started creating things #in other words: the current iteration of christianity that is being portrayed and sold nowerdays #is based 100% off of bible fanfiction #and we see how that turned out #an early warning of whats to comed with the whole wattpad book printing situation #/j #but ey now you have an introduction to almost all my ultrakill ocs #only the ferrymaiden is missing #but they‘ll get their time to shine dw

[mtlibrary]

This 16th Century woodcut print of an bat was published in 'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux' by Pierre Belon (1555). Belon who was a naturalist, writer and diplomat wrote on a range of topics including botony, anatomy and Egyptology.

#library #law library #mtlibrary #inns of court #libraries #rare books #history #books & libraries #london #rarebook #halloween #early printed books #16th century #special collections

[pagansphinx]

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944) • Lyrical • 1911 • Woodcut from an illustrated book of prose-poems by Kandinsky, containing fifty-six woodcuts • Published 1913 • Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

#art #painting #fine art #art history #wassily kandinsky #abstrart expressionism #prints #woodcut #illustrated book #vintage books #early 20th century european art #abstract art #pagan sphinx art blog #art blogs on tumblr

[u-mspcoll]

Special Collections After Hours | Treasures from our History of Medicine Collections

Detail of copperplate engraving from "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus" by William Harvey. Frankfurt: William Fitzer, 1628.

Join the Special Collections Research Center in the Hatcher Graduate Library next Tuesday (13 December) at 4 pm for our final After Hours open house of the term exploring a selection of artifacts illustrating the early history of western medicine. Read more!

#events #special collections #libraries #archives #libraries and archives #special collections and archives #open house #open houses #after hours #manuscripts #illuminated manuscripts #early printed books #history of medicine #medicine #medical history #medical libraries

[archaeologysucks]

I've been reading Howard Pyle’s “classic” children’s version of the Robin Hood story, published in 1883, and if I had a nickel for every time he uses the word "stout", I would have $12.35, because he has used it 247 times in this 207 page ebook, including this shining example:

Learn another adjective, Howard. I am begging you.

#19th century #victorian literature #robin hood #books #i have no idea how this books became a classic #it's not great y'all #the writing is mediocre at best #and the clumsy pseudo-Early Modern English style is annoying to read #edith heal did a much better job of it in 1926 #if only that version were available in print or ebook #this is not to mention the reference to someone smoking a corncob pipe #you know what they didn't have in mediaeval england? #corn and tobacco #get your shit together howard

[blackbackedjackal]

can you PLEASE share some of the books? or at least where to get em, bc im in desperate need of some good taxidermy books instead of rummaging trough random internet sites

Absolutely! I was compiling a list of what I've gathered over the years that I'll drop when I have a chance. After reading or thumbing through most of them, I have a top 10 recommended list as well of the most essential ones for learning taxidermy and animal processing.

I like to gather as much info as possible when I'm hyperfocused on something, and since most of this was either dirt cheap or free, I've collected quite a bit xD! Most of them are PDFs I found or purchased through ebay or PDF Drive (if you look up taxidermy on the site, a ton of free stuff comes up). Anything I couldn't find after several months of searching, I got used physical copies of or just got the physical ones for convenience.

#i am a data hoarder #and information ghoul #thousands if not millions of files saved over the years #on some external harddrives and USBs or floppy disks/CDs #hell even before then I have books of just printed images and info from the early internet #like it's safe to assume if I like something #i have extra info saved about it somewhere #my bestie is just as bad if not worse lol #we have specific discord servers of just #data and info we've saved and shared with eachother lol #ask