Life IS Pain

Without more Our Flag Means Death, that is!
Thanks, Nana.

More disappearing and death-defying nuns here at

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Garden of Unicorn Delights?

Which Old Testament stories do these elegant beasts belong to?

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Guess Which Old Testament
Lion Is Which!

Yes, it's that oddly regal LutherBibel yet again...


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Animated Flowers!

Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées of 1847 slyly turn florally-attired women into colorful cautionary tales. Particularly love the tippling tit (or is that swigging sparrow?) in the grapevine illustration!


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Someone Colored The Rainbow...
(though the) Skies Are Blank

This Physica Sacra Kupfer-Bibel plate (Genesis) is the ONLY one in our copy that isn't entirely black and white. With that, guess it's time to stop obsessing about this book?
For now!

(Case W911 .77)

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Figxhibit 2:

Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch, 1598. In the much expanded ed., figs (like most ingredients) help with the plague and other diseases.

Did I mention figs have a laxative property? This woodcut certainly suggests they do! 💩
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We've Got Plenty of Other Printer's and Manuscript Devils Though!

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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. album 17/?

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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

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Advent Calendar 2020, Explained!


1. German Calligraphic Calendar Manuscript, 1617
https://t.co/X3Do2Zw1S8

2. Albrecht Dürer, World Map, 1515 (1781)
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3. Girdle Book and Master BF miniature
https://t.co/Olcw82eYLg
https://t.co/5KYkBZnyRV

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The kid who wrote this was 12. Henry Dresser, student at Richard Kemplay’s Academy, Leeds, 1818.

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