John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

"Myley Arsheid Zeriff, Prince of Taffeleta Emperour of Morocco and Fezz"
By Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670

That is, Al-Rashid Ben Ali Al-Charif, Sultan of Morocco, 1666 to 1672.

(Met Museum)

3 Feb 1596: Robert Fludd doctor, #occult writer & #cabbalist takes the BA degree at St. John's #Oxford #otd (BM)

3 Feb 1663: John Donne, son of John Donne, Dean of @StPaulsLondon, & his father's literary executor is buried in St Paul’s Church Covent Garden #otd (eebo/ Met Museum)

2 Feb 1553: John Bale ex-friar, historian, polemicist, playwright, consecrated as Bishop of #Ossory #otd in #Dublin - characteristically he causes a row by demanding the 'new' reformed ordinal be used (BM/eebo)

2 Feb 1550: d. Sir Francis Bryan, Henry VIII's 'Vicar of Hell' at Clonmel Co. Tipperary (BM)

Daffoldils & a red admiral butterfly, c. 1575
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1538-1588

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

View of George Heriot's 'Hospital' #Edinburgh with entrance Illustration to Frederick de Witt's 'Theatrum praecipuarum totius Europae'. c. 1690

(British Museum)

An Orphanotrophium.

31 Jan 1623: Papal constitution Romanæ Sedis Antistes permits use of various #Hindu customs in Christian evangelisation #otd as promoted by the #Italian #Jesuit Robert de Nobili

"New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Olive Oil Press, plate 12"
ca. 1600, Jan Collaert I (Met Museum)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin
before 1402
Attributed to Lorenzo Monaco aka Piero di Giovanni

(Met Museum)