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@DrKarrSchmidt
Oct 5, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Costs An Arm and A Leg...
But Lasts a Hand And A Foot?!

What is it?
Renaissance Geography!
(Did I mention that early modern measurement schemes are endlessly fascinating!?)
1/?

#NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA…
#WyrdWednesday #woodcutwednesday Handspans and footspans are two of the smallest measurements
Going My Way?

Here's the full Geographie page, complete with a globe! From the Tableaux Accomplis de Tous les Arts Liberaux, Christopher de Savigny, 1587.
Want to see more?
2/? Page with a world map surrounded in an oval by all sorts of
Terrific Title Page!

It promises that the "Tableaux" (Pictorial graphics? Diagrams? Both?) of the liberal arts with their singular, summarized method will make it easier to teach these important concepts to the youth . . .

3/? Coat of arms with deer and a violent angel, under letterpres
Fancypants Book Launch

@NewberryLibrary
4/? The Tableaux author ceremonially presents a copy of a much-s
@NewberryLibrary Hands Up If You're Musically Inclined...

(If the visual arts are more your thing, see if you can find the set of bagpipes!)
5/? Small instruments ring the oval border, with a guidian hand The full sheet, with relatively little sheet music involved.
Medicine!

Now with all sorts of terrifying medical implements (but no urine flasks?) and... #spookyscaryskeletons
6/? Full woodcut of Medicine including knives, vessels and skeleDetail of left skeleton, facing forward, hands at its sides Right-hand border skeleton, facing away from viewer into the
One Ring To Ethically Educate Them All?

(Foy=Faith) #ethics
7/? Clasped-hands ring of "foy" or faith at the centerFull-blown chart of ethics, religion, etc.
Cosmographically Confused?

There's more where this came from, but here are Cosmography and Dialectics to help get you where you're going on YOUR intellectual odyssey!
8/8 Cosmography woodcutDialectics woodcut.

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Feb 27, 2023
Tell-All Volvelle?

Newly re-cataloged to include the movable bits! This hand-drawn "Viennese Oracle" dial points you to one of 16 riddles and presumably, THE TRUTH!
#ManuscriptMonday #interactive
1/4
@NewberryLibrary
i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Dial with four concentric circles positioned on an image of
@NewberryLibrary Behold!

Worthy of the Oracle at Delphi, is it not? All that nearly grisaille watercolor marbling to establish a German Romantic nostalgia vibe in the process of using the dial...
2/4 Full page with the volvelle, looking like an unnumbered gran
@NewberryLibrary Wisdom of the Ages?

Looks like the book is getting a ringing endorsement from Athena and her owl! I presume the dial is around the back of the monument? I'm unfamiliar with Joseph Dietrich, but he signed all the pictures...
3/4 A grisaille title page drawing with the goddess Athena and a
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Feb 25, 2023
It Has Pockets!!

Purple Velvet Pockets!
19th c. book portfolio lined with all sorts of luxury fabrics. What goes inside?

#NewberryLibrary
i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Open portfolio with small b...
Open portfolio with small v...
Open portfolio with small b...
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Sep 6, 2022
Don't Want To Go Back To Work Today?

How about a trip to Ancient Rome instead? (Via the Renaissance, of course! This book's from 1532.) Pick a gate, any gate; there are 16, 1 per pizza-shaped slice, each with a monumental topping...
1/?

#NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Woodcut view of the round ancient walls of Rome with 16 gate
Headshots

Even the title page is channeling antique monument fonts... Note the crowned SPQR on the left-most crest, the St Peter Papal keys and headgear on the center one (actually Pope Clement the 7th's arms who died two years later in 1534), and a cardinal hat at right.
2/? Sparely filled title page saying "ANTIQVAE VRBIS ROMAE
Now with MORE Tiber!

3/? Rome, now with the river running through it ...
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Sep 4, 2022
Nice day for a bike ride...
#BikeTheDrive Selfie in bike helmet with ...
No time to visit inside the @msichicago, unfortunately.

23 miles since our house...
So far! Still me, now in front of t...
Heading back north to Grant Park turned into a torrent! Bikers heading north in fro...
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Sep 4, 2022
Doesn't the Text Go...
On the INSIDE?

#newberrylibrary #newacq #bindingwaste #recycling #fragment Modern paper binding over b...Detail of stenciled pattern...
Didn't identify the text yet, but the binder identified herself!

#herbook Inside of book's fro t boar...
With help from @EricaHnrksn and @SLevelt, here's the 1821 sheet from Le Monde Universel! Note the columns, still visible in the binding...
3/4 1821 page from Le Monde Uni...View of cover of book, turn...
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