Anatomical painting found in an Album amicorum kept by the Zittau bookbinder Gottlob Ehrenfried Knothe. Germany, 1778-1784.

Codex Ms. 1744

University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center.

#Albumamicorum #18thcentury #RareBooks #Manuscripts

Hidden Treasures series 44:

𝐀 '𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥' 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝟏𝟓𝟗𝟕-𝟏𝟔𝟎𝟔
from Album Amicorum by Andreas Matt (Math ou Madt) de Poznań, MS Smith-Lesouëf 84, f. 41r (with flap), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Bloodletting #Stemmbuch #Albumamicorum #goliardy

After New York and London our next fair destination is a virtual one: the viaLibriVirtual Showcase (May 20-25).
A first highlight is this fascinating #albumamicorum of Carl Gottlieb Heinrich from Bischofswerda, who entered the Dutch army in 1802 and later served in Batavia. More on our website.

#otd November 17th (1588-1610) Anastasius Demler signed the #albumamicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch in Vienna. Prack, a messenger for the Habsburg Ambassador to Constantinople, collected Ottoman decorated papers. Demler was likeky a professor of law from Tübingen (or a son with the same name?)

#OTD in #history November 16, 1575, Johann Huetstockher the younger signed the #albumamicorum of the master of the kitchens in the German House in Constantinople, Sebald Plan. Huetstockher was named as a messenger in Stefan Gerlach's travel narrative #portraitsofempires

#OTD in history, November 15, 1590, johann Schürer von Krumau signed the #albumamicorum of Johann Lucano in the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. Lucano was a member if ambassador Pezzen's retinue. I found out about this album after publishing #portraitsofempires. I am sure there are more!

#OTD, November 30, 1591, Habsburg resident ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Friedrich von Kreckwitz signed the #albumamicorum of the messenger Hans Joachim Prack von Asch. See the silhouette paper and coat of arms 😍. Getty Research Institute: 2013.M.24, fol. 39r. #PortraitsofEmpires

Is this the earliest #catpiano?
#Engraving from Johann Theodor de Bry's Emblemata Saecularia, 1596
#Watercolour from Andreas Matt's #AlbumAmicorum, 1597-1606.
#cat #cats #earlymusic #earlymodern #lute

Two #owls with a #mouse, and a #monkey playing the #bagpipes.
From the Album amicorum of G.F. Speid, Bavaria, c1631-1633
Bodleian Library MS. Autogr. g. 3
#17thCentury #earlymodern #earlymusic #albumamicorum #owl

Musicians playing by candlelight.
From the album amicorum of Johannes Weckherlin (entries dated from 1593-1608). Württembergische Landesbibiothek, Cod. hist. oct. 218
[Would one candle really give enough light??]
#earlymusic #violin #lute #earlymodern #albumamicorum

When job descriptions are vague, but carrying random objects with style is a must.

From 16th century #AlbumAmicorum #Renaissance #earlymodern
#NationalLibraryOfLithuania

Can you bring me a couple of chickens and spin some thread? #Multitasking at it’s best. This image come from an #AlbumAmicorum that belonged to Maximilian Teuffel, who brought it to Italy while studying. Some of illustrations are almost identical to other albums, could they have been mass produced?