I visited quite a few book museums in my life. Some mediocre and some fantastic. Here are my best 3. Which would you recommend? My Top 3. If you...
A great little book! Thanks for sharing!
This is a new addition to my collection: a large Bible printed in 1583 by Christophe Plantin (~1520-1589). The book is bound in a probably 17th...
The death scene is called Mortis Certitudo (The Certainty of Death) This engraving illustrates the inevitability of death. A skeletal Death draws...
Another addition to my collection! This book is (unfortunately) not complete, it contains only 97 of the 102 copper engravings, designed by the...
Thank you, I didn’t know it was active until so recently.
Thank you for your compliment! I don’t use anything special. I only use an old iPhone and good light (good light is more important than the camera...
The copper plates were engraved in the 18th century and still in the museum. They also have a large collection of originsl woodcuts in their...
You have a good eye! I believe is it Ephesian Artemis (Diana), the twin sister of Apollo. Here another example from the same book, again designed...
In the 19th and the early 20th century it was normal for a museum to use old wood blocks or copper plates to sell souvenirs. Sometimes they...
Nice! By incident I bought a few altar cards (as in your last photo) a few weeks ago! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
After a painting of David Teniers the Younger? [ATTACH] https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/10709/
Some more info about the Madonna....
“Opera” is another common term for complete works. [ATTACH]
Some more info: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25845137M/Robinson%27s_progressive_intellectual_arithmetic
In early modern times often the printing houses did not bind the book. A buyer ordered a book at the printer shop and then let it bind at the book...
It still fits on a 3.5 inch floppy disk when it is 1 MB.
Recycling is from all times. This is called maculature. Fragment of a 15th century manuscript (probably a Book of Hours) on a 17th century book....
It looks like laid (handmade, pre-industrial revolution) paper to me.
I try to inspire others in interest in early modern books. As you can see there is so much depth and richness in the research you can do for such...
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