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an old book with a drawing of a boy holding a watering can

"What's your favourite Alciato emblem, Malcolm ?" people are always asking me -- I shrug and say I don't really have one, but German students certainly did -- and this is it! Here as painted into the album of Hanns Ludwig Pfinzing von Henfenfelden, Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc Hist f.36v -.entries in this part dated 1605-25. The entire digitised album is available via the Library's website.

an old book with writing and a flower in the middle, on top of it

The Rose Canon

The Rose Canon ~ Salve Radix Motets for Henry VIII (Southern Netherlands, 1516).

an image of a painting with a boat in the water and a man standing on it

nice little trompe l'oeil from the Jenisch album amicorum, f.232v

a flower with the words, did you know? gray dippleia becomes transparent when it is touched by water

Diphylleia grayi

"Diphylleia grayi" (Skeleton flower), Gray's Diphylleia or Umbrella Leaf ~ The petals become transparent with the rain.

a black and white ball with an image of the world on it's surface

Carved ostrich egg is oldest depiction of the New World

Carved surface of an ostrich egg shows the oldest known map of the New World | 1504

two pages from an old book with flowers and leaves on them, one is empty

Maltese Cross, Mussel, and Ladybird (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)

Maltese Cross, Mussel, and Ladybird Joris Hoefnagel, illuminator; Georg Bocskay, scribe, illumination 1591-1596, script 1561-1562

an image of a tree that is in the middle of water with moss growing on it

Hercules Segers -- The Mossy Tree, 1625-1630 [573-1000] -- OPENPICS.AEROBATIC.IO

Hercules Segers -- The Mossy Tree, 1625-1630 [573-1000]

an image of a vase on a table surrounded by circles and bubbles, with a man's head in the background

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From The British Library https://flic.kr/p/hJ7Znh | tumblr_mwic1mfHKC1sjzy3lo1_1280

the words nubvagant and ad moving among clouds on a white background

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nubivagant

a brown and white vase sitting on top of a table

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Kintsukuroi or kintsugi is the art of healing broken pottery with lacquer and silver or gold. The philosophy behind this reparation is that something should not be discarded just because it is broken. It is in fact more beautiful for having been broken.

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