Tag: "manuscript"

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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Woodcut used by Wolfgang Stoeckel

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

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Illuminated Manuscript, Koran, Double-page illuminated frontispiece, Walters Art Museum, Ms W.743, fol. 1b

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

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Koran, Left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece of geometrical design in gold, blue, and white, Walters Manuscript W.556, fol. 4a

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Koran, Illuminated incipit page with headpiece, Walters Manuscript W.556, fol. 4b

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

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Koran, Right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece of geometrical design in gold, blue, and white, Walters Manuscript W.556, fol. 3b

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Device of Sebastianus Gryphius, 1493-1556

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Stamps from the Jesuit college in Naples and from the Reale Biblioteca Borbonica (Biblioteca nazionale (Naples, Italy))

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Woodcut illustration of Verginia's trial before Appius Claudius and her death at the hand of her father Verginius

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Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde, Cleric seated at table set with compass, dividers, and geometric shapes, Walters Manuscript W.199, fol. 30r

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Woodcut arms of Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut of St. Paul at his writing table; used by Hans Lufft of Wittenberg

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

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'Brandes sale'

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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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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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