Five layers: the earth, the heavens, the clock... Come to the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social lecture evening on 23 June to find out how this 16th century device works, and take home your own working replica! history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
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Katie Birkwood
One more artistic void!
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Islamic influence?
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What's tall, short, and red all over?
This title page is the only one not on paper, though vellum likely would shrink from the marbling process... All that gold's a fair trade though!
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Marbled Masterpiece!
This 17th c. German calligraphic copy book by a Wilhelm Schwartz is almost entirely written on gorgeously experimental marbled paper!
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social VAULT Wing MS folio ZW 647 .S398 1/?
When the musical chairs music stops
And now with an updated catalog entry the actually mentions marbled paper!
Interestingly, at least one instance of the paper is marbled... ON BOTH SIDES!
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Into the VOIDS
My favorite pages are probably these where shaped paper was used to create floral and other patterns within the marbled background!
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Pierre Woeiriot engraving of an unusually compact bunch of French nobles, c. 1591.
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(Wing ZP 5471 .91)
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