#16th century books

[bobdobalina]

Exquisitely tinted pages from Tycho Brahe’s book Astronomiæ Instauratæ Mechanica, printed by Philipp von Ohr on Brahe's own printing press at Wandesburg castle in Wandsbeck, Hamburg, Germany, in 1598.

Shown are an overhead view and side view of Brahe's opulent observatory Uraniborg, located on the island of Hven between Denmark and Sweden. This science-palace was built around 1576 and was demolished in 1601 shortly after Brahe's death.

More details about this book at Christie's, which sold a copy in 1999 for $222,000.

[costumedump]

A Man With His Head In His Chest From The Islands In the Indian Ocean

Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini, Book Of Wonders And Oddities

Istanbul, 1553

Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Helmingham herbal and bestiary.

Place oforigin/Published: Helmingham, Suffolk

Date: ca. 1500

[red-flower-red]

Embroidered Book Covers, 15th-17th centuries

[ltwilliammowett]

Diptych sundial with compass made of ivory and brass, German, 4.6 (cm) x 5.4 (cm) x 4.4 (cm). circa 1595

[cuties-in-codices]

drawings of flowers and cherries at the margins of a manuscript made to look like real material objects affixed to the page

in a book of hours, flanders, ca. 1520

source: Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl., Cod. 2730, f. 7r-9r.

[cy-lindric]

La Reine Margot - Charles IX, Henri de Navarre, and Marguerite de Valois

I.III - Un roi poète

I.XXXI - La Chasse à Courre

II.IV - La Nuit des Rois

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 64 is a book of diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian Georg von Peurbach, who is considered one of the first modern astronomers. He was particularly interested in simplifying the Ptolemic system (which places the Earth in the center of the solar system). The diagrams in the book demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion.

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LJS 64 was recently featured in #CoffeeWithACodex, you can watch the complete 30 minute video here:

[thebeautifulbook]

The Geneva Bible, presented by the printer, Christopher Barker, to Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Day, 1584.

It was described at the time as 'covered with crymson vellat alouer embradered wythe venys golde and seade perle'. The donor received 11 1/8 ounces of gilt plate for his gift.

1560 edition

Held by The Bodleian Library.

[escapismsworld]

Two Skulls In A Window Niche, by Hans Holbein The Younger (German, 1497-1543), 1520

[hdslibrary]

Framed

We found a glittering surprise when we opened this volume from 1501/02. The book contains the Latin text of the biblical book of Ezekiel, along with commentary by the 13th century Dominican priest, Hugh of St. Cher.

The decorated letter here (the only one found in this volume) has a frame border which itself echoes the framing of the biblical text by its commentary.

Biblia latina cum postillis Hugonis de s. Charo. [Basel : Johann Amerbach for Anton Koberger, 1498-1502]. (v.5)

[wolfhalledits]

'WOLF HALL' RECAP — 1x03 'Anna Regina' air date — 4 February 2015 dir. Peter Kosminsky

In 1531, King Henry VIII has proposed a bill which will make him the head of the Church in England and allow him to marry Anne Boleyn. However, his plans are met with a series of complications.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ "Freydal": Tournament book of Emperor Maximilian I.

Culture: South German

Date: A.D. 1512-1515

Medium: 255 gouaches heightened with gold and silver in leather strap: paper; leather.

• From the source: The "Freydal" describes the tournaments during Maximilian's knightly love journey.

[jeannepompadour]

Collection of drawings accompanied by texts, known as Recueil Robertet, 1490-1520 France;

The Duchess of Bar

Women from Lombardy and Venice

Women from Naples and Florence

Women from Germany and France

Green and Yellow; White and Blue

[lionofchaeronea]

Romulus and Remus, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) after Giulio Romano (1499-1546)

[cuties-in-codices]

"guide to the construction of letters"

pages from the "model book of calligraphy", vienna, originally created by georg bocskay from 1561-62, illuminated and expanded by joris hoefnagel, c. 1591–96

source: Getty Museum Collection, Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 143r-147r