Saturday, 15 November 2008
continuing on a fashion theme.....
Jean-Jacques MangetTraité De La Peste. 1721.
Protective clothing for a physician treating someone with plague.
again unavain, but you've gotta love the knight's of Malta......
Tombs of the Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta
Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum
The honorific watercolour/ink/inkwash album featured above was produced in 1781 by Le Bailli de Froullay and Fr. Ludovicus d'Almeyda with the Greek notations by a certain Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is entitled: 'Mausolées des Grans Maîtres de l'Ordre de S. Jean de Jerusalem qui etoitent en Rhodes, tirés des dessins originaux qui existent dans la chancelerie de l'Ordre à Malthe' and is available in html or flash format from La Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence.
The honorific watercolour/ink/inkwash album featured above was produced in 1781 by Le Bailli de Froullay and Fr. Ludovicus d'Almeyda with the Greek notations by a certain Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is entitled: 'Mausolées des Grans Maîtres de l'Ordre de S. Jean de Jerusalem qui etoitent en Rhodes, tirés des dessins originaux qui existent dans la chancelerie de l'Ordre à Malthe' and is available in html or flash format from La Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence.
Caricature of Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
Never let it be said that oceanographers don't have a sense of humour. Smoking a penguin?
extra falconry
Konradin von HohenstaufenOK.. so not entirely bird related but just too good to omit....
'Turnierbuch. Ritterspiele gehalten von Kaiser Friedrich III. und Kaiser Maximilian I. in den Jahren 1489 - 1511 - BSB Cod.icon. 398' is online at MDZ.(Tournament book. Knight games held by Emperor Frederick III. Emperor Maximilian I and in the years 1489 to 1511)
ms illuminated in 1550's - genius
pope books
'Papstprophetien' manuscript (~1464-1471)Images come from the German National Museum digital collection
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