Incunabulaさんのイラストまとめ

"Yeah, but I want to see JUST the cuneiform bones, don't waste my time with gifs that show the WHOLE FOOT"

Sure.

A leaf from a 14th century missal in Glagoltic script. In 1248, Pope Innocent IV granted the Croats of southern Dalmatia the unique privilege of using a translation of the Roman Rite in their own script.

Manly Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" - a kind of compendium of Occult & Hermetic knowledge - is one of the most visually remarkable books of the 20th century, and an intellectual tour de force by Hall, who was just 27 years old when he wrote & published it in 1928. 1/3

Woodblock printing of texts was developed in China around the 2nd century, and soon reached unparalleled sophistication, not just in China, but in Korea and Japan as well. Around 1300 years later, attempts at the same thing were made in the West, but without lasting success.

The art of preparing an absinthe.

A cat drinking half a glass of absinthe, and then feeling a bit hungover. Photo-cards circa 1900.

The Voyager Disk was simply a churinga to the stars.

A few more pages from @ChristiesBKS 2006 description of the manuscript.

Every fig you've ever eaten contained at least one dead wasp. 😱

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Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani’s Kartuli leksik’oni, edited by Raphael Eristavi, Tbilisi 1884. The first printed edition of the first Georgian dictionary, especially significant for its extensive annotations of concepts from logic, astronomy, and physics. 1/2