

There are occasional pencil foliations throughout, of which only some are correct. Some border designs have suffered losses through trimming. Red initials, red and blue puzzle initials. The note does not indicate which folio this date is on. According to a note in the dossier, one of the illustrations is dated 1445. At opening of main text, woodcut initial showing the Annunciation. About 180 colored drawings showing Old Testament scenes. Wilson, 1935 and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. Rubric and miniature of Moses, Pharaoh, and the snakes Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage. Alamy charges you a fee for access to the high resolution copy of the image.

Really interesting read that left me super curious and with questions.This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright. But what are we looking at, and what does the scientist want us to do with the pieces? We sit down with our tea, and Liu begins to explain.” Like specimens in a mad scientist’s laboratory, they are raided parts dropped into glass containers of formaldehyde for our viewing. Liu’s poems are experimental and strange they demand that readers move through the pages without a guide-and many times without a speaker. The poem “Stomach me, delicious world” is a Frankenpo, and according to Liu’s notes at the back of the book, combines “the screenplay of Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together (1997) + screenplay of Alice Wu’s Saving Face (2004) + article ‘Confucius on Gay Marriage’ in the Diplomat + New York Times article ‘Court in Hong Kong Invalidates Antisodomy Law from British Era.’” “Much of the work in Monsters I Have Been is what Liu calls “Frankenpo,” a style of his own creation that chops and mixes multiple texts into one body. Beutter Cohen has become a documentarian of the underground and someone who is dialed into the American and international cultural scene.” While its main mission is to help its 225,000 social media followers discover new books, places and people, Subway Book Review delves deeper and shows us to never judge a person by their book cover. Subway Book Review’s premise? Beutter Cohen photographs and interviews people reading printed books on the subway about what they’re reading and how they’re living life, and shares the often unexpected stories on social media, namely on Instagram. Sloane 1975 contains a collection of different works, including a treatise.

A man attempting to vanquish a serpent and an image of the Teazle plant, England or France, c.

“That idea became the social media movement that recently reached a new milestone: its five-year anniversary. The manuscript is an illustrated collection of medical texts, made in England or Northern France in the last quarter of the 12th century. We’re not talking about bunnies here, though there’s plenty of documentation to suggest medieval rabbits were tough customers.Īs Vox Almanac’s Phil Edwards explains, above, the many snails littering the margins of 13th-century manuscripts were also fearsome foes.”ħ0 instances of man-on-snail combat <- I’m dying! Sometimes you have to fight a truly formidable opponent. It isn’t all power, glory, advantageous marriages and gifts ranging from castles to bags of gold. “As any Game of Thrones fan knows, being a knight has its downsides. Sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive.
