fishing for souls
detail from a copy of "le pèlerinage de la vie humaine" by guillaume de deguileville, illuminated by the maître d'antoine rolin, hainaut, late 15th/early 16th c.
source: Genève, Bibl. de Genève, Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v

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fishing for souls
detail from a copy of "le pèlerinage de la vie humaine" by guillaume de deguileville, illuminated by the maître d'antoine rolin, hainaut, late 15th/early 16th c.
source: Genève, Bibl. de Genève, Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v
the arrogance on display when a little dessert has cooking instructions that tell you to put the whole oven on just for one small roll. who do you think you are youre going in the microwave like everything else
I'm alive 2026 Watercolour and ink on paper
I'm trying to come back to tumblr. It's difficult.
The picture is not related to my own being alive, that's coincidental; I just intend to upload some of the things I made in that time (not all, but some), and this is one of those. I actually developed a bastarda handwriting for the sake of this picture, because my ordinary gothic handwriting is textualis, but that didn't suit the picture, it needed something softer and livelier.
Bastarda & João de Sousa // Fado
2021, Audio Cave
quando vi sentite una nullità e avete crisi d’autostima
ricordatevi sempre che c’è una coppia che se solo sente il vostro nome, litiga
Typography Tuesday
CURSIVE GOTHIC AND EARLY ENGLISH TYPEFACES
Among the popular reading hands for English manuscripts in the 14th and 15th centuries were cursive Gothic scripts, most of which may be classified as Bastarda (or in French lettre bâtard), Anglicana, or a hybrid Bastarda Anglicana, all of which have a rounded cursive quality with extended loops and flourishes. These qualities are especially evident in our facsimiles of the early 15th-century Ellesmere Chaucer (first three images) and The Life of Saint Edmund, King & Martyr from 1433/34 (next three images). These book scripts developed from English correspondence hands of the 12th century and by the late 13th century had become regularized and widely-used book hands.
It was natural for England’s first printer and typographer William Caxton to develop and use these scripts as models for his first typefaces. An English merchant on the continent, Caxton likely picked up his printing skills in Cologne and produced the first printed book in English in Bruges, both regions having Bastarda traditions themselves. That first book, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, was printed in 1473 in a Bastarda-style typeface. When Caxton moved to Westminster, England, he brought Bastarda typefaces with him, probably designed by Johann Veldener, that were based on the sumptuous Burgundian scripts he encountered in his association with Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. These types can be seen in our single leaf from Caxton’s printing of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the first book book printed in England in 1476, and in our facsimile of Caxton’s 1483 The Game of Chess (below the Saint Edmund images).
Certe volte la vita è proprio una bastarda senza compassione
Sempre di testa mia.🥀