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Fungi called Fly Amanita from Greville’s ‘Scottish cryptogamic flora’, 1823-28

Fungi called Fly Amanita from Greville’s ‘Scottish cryptogamic flora’, 1823-28

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Virtual exhibition on WW II.

"Vanderbilt Hours"

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519436

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Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 2657, Benedictiones pontificales, saec. XI: http://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/view/bsg_ms2657

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 2657, Benedictiones pontificales, saec. XI: http://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/view/bsg_ms2657

Google Glass: Don’t Be A Glasshole (von Mashable)

Johannes <de Auerbach> / Innocentius <Papa, IV.> / Petrus <Jacobi>: Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque iure, [Basel], [nicht nach 1476] [BSB-Ink M-501 - GW M47366] Bayerische Staatsbibliothekurn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00082282-7http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0008/bsb00082282

Johannes <de Auerbach> / Innocentius <Papa, IV.> / Petrus <Jacobi>: Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque iure, [Basel], [nicht nach 1476] [BSB-Ink M-501 - GW M47366] Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00082282-7
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0008/bsb00082282

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thegetty:

This is no ordinary hedgehog. The bestiary (book of beasts) this little guy inhabits describes the imaginative way this hedgehog gathers fruits. He spears grapes with his spikes and rolls through the vine, collecting more and more as he goes. Moral of the story? Care for your spiritual truths, or the devil may carry them off. 
A Hedgehog (detail), Franco-Flemish, about 1270. Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum

thegetty:

This is no ordinary hedgehog. The bestiary (book of beasts) this little guy inhabits describes the imaginative way this hedgehog gathers fruits. He spears grapes with his spikes and rolls through the vine, collecting more and more as he goes. Moral of the story? Care for your spiritual truths, or the devil may carry them off. 

A Hedgehog (detail), Franco-Flemish, about 1270. Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum

hereliesbeauty:

1490 Milanese, Italian Renaissance portrait of a lady by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis.

hereliesbeauty:

1490 Milanese, Italian Renaissance portrait of a lady by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis.

(via fuckyeahrenaissancehistory)

Epithaph of Philipp Senft von Sulpurg, scholasticus Herrieden (d. 1515), Augustinuskirche Schwäbisch Gmünd (former OESA church)

Epithaph of Philipp Senft von Sulpurg, scholasticus Herrieden (d. 1515), Augustinuskirche Schwäbisch Gmünd (former OESA church)

Epitaph of a priest, saec. XVIII (Schwäbisch Gmünd-Straßdorf)

Epitaph of a priest, saec. XVIII (Schwäbisch Gmünd-Straßdorf)

centuriespast:

Blockbook (ca. 1470)Apocalypsis Sancti JohannisGermany, about 1463–67
The Morgan library

centuriespast:

Blockbook (ca. 1470)
Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis
Germany, about 1463–67

The Morgan library

(via medieval)

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