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The first commandment in five languages, all in Arabic script from Austrian National Library, Cod. A.F.437, fol. 29v. Other languages represented in the MS include Croatian, Hungarian, and Latin as well as Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.
More information available here.
Sculptural Cartographies - Stick Charts of the Marshall Islands.
The location of the islands was represented by shells tied to the framework or by the lashed junction of two or more sticks. The threads were used to map ocean swells, the prevailing ocean surface wave-crests and the directions they followed to approach an island. (more info here)
Carolingian manuscript leaves used as binding material for a 16th C. book.
(More information here and an article is available in the latest issue of Quaerendo.
Gospel passages inscribed on the wall of a medieval crypt at Old Dongola.
More info here.
A forest of characters. Ryuichi Yamashiro's "Forest" silkscreen, 1954.
The first art-nouveau title page. Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, Wren’s City Churches. (Orpington, Kent, 1883). Woodcut.
The earliest printed book in China - a scroll of the Diamond Sutra from 868.
Giant Koran at Al-Ashriyyah Nurul Iman boarding school in Parung, West Java. (h/t to @Stewart_Brookes)
Lidded stoneware jar with typographical design, by Bo Kristiansen, d. 1991.
Devouring a book
As I have shown in previous posts (like this one), medieval and early-modern books were damaged not just by the hands of their readers, but also by animals. Hungry animals, that is. Mice and beetles in particular loved to dig into the parchment and paper pages, devouring words in an unwanted way. This big hole in a 17th-century Italian manuscript is an extreme example, fortunately, through it is symptomatic for the fact that books are constantly under attack from nibbling creatures - who are as persistent as they are hungry. It is only in the care of a good library that such old books can lean back in peace, knowing they are safe.
Pic: image taken from this news piece.
Bible, bound in late-16th century Mexico.
This edition of the Latin Bible was printed in Venice in 1511, but according to a contemporary inscription on the final leaf, the book was in Mexico City by 1559. Judging by the tools and the style of its calfskin binding, the Bible was bound in Mexico in the late sixteenth century. Such early Mexican gold-tooled bindings in the European tradition are extremely uncommon today. Most books imported into Mexico were encased in undecorated limp vellum. The gilt central armorial device on both covers of this book, a shield bearing the five wounds of the crucified Christ, belonged to the Franciscan Convent of Mexico City.
Skin calligraphy by Gabriel Martinez Meave.
Silk astronomical manuscript (2nd century BC) from Mawangdui archaeological site in Changsha, China.
Doctrina Christiana. One of the first books to be published in the Philippines, 1593.
In both Spanish and Tagalog.
The Library of Congress owns the only known copy.
Printed on mulberry paper.
Ivory booklet with carved scenes of the Passion
Ivory booklet with - carved scenes of the Passion - painted images - wax tablets
France, early 14th century
Currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
More info: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1982.60.399
book as art | art as book
Bound in seal skin.
Old Icelandic Homily Book, c. 1200, Iceland.
(Image source: Flickr, National Library of Sweden)
“Movable type” Rubik’s cube (Shaun Chung) - the block prints the Three Character Classic (Wang Yinglin, Song Dynasty) about how to be a good person in society
roomthily: via Makezine
