Daniel Bellingradt @[email protected]さんのイラストまとめ

So what was this manuscript designed for? Well, it is likely that this collection of watercolors served as the basis for a manuscript/print nursery catalogue. Especially printed catalogues of nurseries specialised for example in ornamental plants or trees were a well-going niche.

This "tulip book" is nowadays in the collections of Utrecht University, and can be accessed here:
https://t.co/OgDh20OpMP

Back in the seventeenth century, Dutch tulips were a thing, an expensive thing as we know. Just google tulip mania and enjoy the stories.

While mocking the Pope and the Catholic Church was a sport in mid sixteenth-century Germany, and prints or medals depicting devilish Popes did sell well in these decades, there is more to this unsual print. There are denizens of hell surrounding the Pope in the middle.

To start with, you can find the (French?) painting nowadays here:

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg Aschaffenburg, URL: https://t.co/wNfC58W4XG

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An anonymous still life from the seventeenth century. There is a lot going on, a parakeet, a seashell, fruits etc.

And there is paper: a lot of paper. Let's have a look in a short thread for #paperhistory and #bookhistory.
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Your nowadays paperless office was around 1600 in Europe a paperfull workplace. The more important you were, the more paper sheets, bundles, letters, etc. were lying right in front of you. Want to make a paper career? Train suspicious reading holding many papers!
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Different book clasps, different versions of fore-edge book storing, a lot of blank pages, a writing and reading space with quill and inkwell (but no paper sheets) ...
There is a lot to comment on in this printed image of mid seventeenth century. A #bookhistory thread. 1/x https://t.co/aahv2S1AbU

Entangled media histories: You see Martino Martini, a seventeenth-century Jesuit holding a Chinese styled map with the Great Wall in the North. His map pointing reflects his sources and media recycling practice because Martini was also a cartographer. In 1665, he published

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A very rare example of librarians' art from Wolfenbüttel: using a stamp to make a simple printed plant from 1544 to a magnificent blooming flower a historian in 2021 tweets about.

Details of the stamped title page of the copy of "Een schoon liedekens" (@hab_wf A: 236.5 Poet.)

Coffee and newspaper! Put coffee in your ink, Lucky Luke “Le Daily Star”. #bookhistory