Tag: "manuscript"

Device of Strasbourg printer Mathias Apiarius, ca. 1500-1554

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Woodcut arms of Conrad Zöllner von Rothenstein (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut illustration of Pyramus and Thisbe

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19th-century English legal document, possibly a contract between Henry Handy and Thomas Milbourne Blome, witnessed by Henry George Robinson, a solicitor who practiced at 6 Half-Moon Street, Piccadilly...

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Woodcut illustration of the wives of the Cimbrians

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Woodcut of a saint preaching. Used by Pamphilus Gengenbach of Basel.

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Woodcut illustration of the death of Harmonia of Syracuse and her body double

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Woodcut used by Wolfgang Stoeckel

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Illustrations of four barons of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Freiherr von Limpurg, Freiherr von Thusis[?], Freiherr von Westerburg, Freiherr von Alwalden[?]) and their insignia, used by Peter Jor...

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Illustration of four towns of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Bamberg, Sélestat, Ulm, Haguenau) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Illustration of four towns (Bauern) of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Cologne, Regensburg, Konstanz, and Salzburg) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Illustrations of four burgraves of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Burggraf von Nürnberg, Burggraf von Magdeburg, Ritter von Stromberg, and Burggraf von Rieneck[?]) and their insignia, used by Peter...

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Woodcut arms of Ludolf König (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut illustration of Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the deaths of Pausanias and of Cleopatra and her daughter

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Illustrations of four Landgraves of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Landgraf von Thuringia, Landgraf von Hesse, Landgraf von Leuchtenburg, and Landgraf von Elsass) and their insignia, used by Peter...

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Anaphora of Mary (Mass book), Virgin and Her Beloved Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Walters Manuscript W.829, fol. 1v

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Illustrations of four knights of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Ritter von Andlau, Ritter von Strandeck, Ritter von Meldingen, Ritter von Frauenberg) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Ma...

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Illustrations of four counts of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Graf von Cleve, Graf von Schwarzburg, Graf von Cilli, Graf von Savoyen) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Album of Persian calligraphy, Incipit page with illuminated headpiece, Walters Manuscript W.673, fol.1b

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Album of Persian and Indian calligraphy, miniatures, and prints, Man and animals in the shape of an elephant (composite animal), Walters Manuscript W.670, fol. 13b detail

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Woodcut ('Sauritt des Papsts') after Lucas Cranach the Elder, used by Christian Rödinger the Elder of Magdeburg, of the pope riding a sow, holding steaming excrement

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Woodcut illustration of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), cardinal, theologian and envoy of Pope Eugene IV, holding a girdle book. Used by Georg Rhaw of Wittenberg

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Title page of a book from the library of Maria Benigna Francisca Piccolomini (1635-1701)

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16th century German binding: full blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards

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