Fashion Plates from Hungary

The Mysteryes of Nature and Art : Conteined in foure severall Tretises, the first of Water Workes, the Second of Fyer Workes, the third of ...

Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum Founded in the 11th century as a lay religious order of hospital workers who observed vows of poverty, c...

These lithographic scenes from the Crimean War, based on sketches by William Simpson , were published in London in a couple of series by Col...

I love the dark more than I love the light, because every dark night has a dawn, and for me, from darkness to light leads to the end. So ye...

These three hand-painted woodblock prints come from a 5-volume anatomical work from 1813 called 'Kaitai Hatsumou' by Mitsutane. The...

"Satire around the four numbers of the year '1690', each representing a continent at war" "Set of twelve horizontal c...

Jörg Wickram (~1505-1562) was a German writer from the Alsace region (now France) who straddled the Renaissance and Early Modern periods of...

[click for larger versions] This exquisitely beautiful manuscript, based at least in part on the Lorsch Gospels, was created in about 969 AD...

Spanish calligrapher and woodcutter, Pedro Diaz Morante (1565-1636) , devised a new system for teaching cursive writing which was released i...

'Insignia nobilium Neapolitanorum et Genuensium' - 15th century at Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek [click: 'Miniaturansicht' ...