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.

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?

#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!

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

#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