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Light is provided by some spherical fruit which bear the name of lamps. There are two, transversally placed, in each hexagon. The light they emit is insufficient, incessant. 6/

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Staff Meeting.

Inside the book is a small page torn from a calendar-almanac, obviously used here as a bookmark. Thanks to the brilliant @vauzhao (who everyone interested in Russian/Turkic/Sino-Russian linguistics should follow), I have the text on the reverse translated.... 10/

"... He makes us understand the vastness, loneliness, and weirdness of the majestic Greenland landscape and evokes the soul of the country as the ancient Eskimos have known it..." 11/

... might have been lost with 'civilization'. It's the magnum opus of that extraordinary artist Aron Kangek, the hunter who without formal training with simple tools cut the marvellous woodcuts. The acquisition of this was one of the greatest thrills I've had as a collector." 4/

Only in Schalcken's painting is the Virgin reading from a SCROLL, which would have been the correct book format at the time. The codex-form book shown in El Greco's and Titian's paintings didn't come into widespread use until at least two centuries later, from around AD 200. 5/

Here is Godfried Schalcken's version vs El Greco's..... 2/

The remaining 24 posters depict scenes from Jesus’s life and ministry with Chinese subtitles. Generally all the figures, Jesus included, have clearly Chinese features. 3/

A Baroque 17th century Spanish Carta Ejecutoria, or grant of arms, granted by the Regent of Spain, Mariana de Austria. The unusual full page miniature shows King Charles II, known as Charles the Smol.