Sunday Surprise?
Not-So-Blind Cupid is paid to look the other way... as this much-younger wife begins to stray, and her old husband earns his horns! This mercenary trope is equally ancient. #unequallovers #Heylwagen album 17/? #NewberryLibrary #newacq #albumamicorum #1700s
Now THIS is MY Kind of Valentine!
The sanguine ink definitely sets it apart from the René Descartes version that preceded it! Renatus Des Cartes de homine. Lugduni Batavorum: Moyardum & Leffen, 1662. It too has needles indicating parts. @GettyResearch https://t.co/0dLAX1cRSN https://t.co/JAqLLz9TY1
The one on the right is from the Blason des Couleurs, a c. 1540 copy of an older manual on heraldry (among other things). It actually REQUIRED coloring, especially on the page explaining the colors... https://t.co/kkALlCgbDD
Fuchs means fox while Vogel means bird. For their ruder slang verb forms, however, nobody needed binoculars!
#birding #birdwatching
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4. Peter Apian, Cosmographie, Paris, 1581 (original lead weight!). https://t.co/LbCIowgS3u
5. Vincenzo Capirola, Lute Manuscript, 1517. https://t.co/H1H3ZKcfkV
6. Anonymous, Cordiform Map in Fool’s Cap, engraving, c. 1590. https://t.co/hXwqiyIfIB
Advent Calendar 2020, Explained!
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1. German Calligraphic Calendar Manuscript, 1617
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2. Albrecht Dürer, World Map, 1515 (1781)
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3. Girdle Book and Master BF miniature
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