illustrations

Page from the Illustrations and Explanations of the Three Jewels (San...

Page from Illustrations and Explanations of the Three Jewels (Sanbō e-...

Textual illustrations from BL Add 26968, f. 111v

Framed marginal illustration of two scenes, probably depicting Abraham breaking the idols, and Abraham in front of King Nimrod, illustrating the passage, 'We were slaves'. The scene in the lower margin depicts ... more

Box for Accessories, with Illustrations from the Kikujidō

De Re Militari (On the Military Arts)

Meditationes

Written by Johannes de Turrecremata (Spanish, 1388–1468)

Sphaera Mundi

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... more

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... more

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... more

[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...

Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... more

Vita et Fabulae

Le devote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore

The Malermi Bible, vol. II

De Arithmetica

Vita Aesopi

Written by Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 B.C.)

(Liber chronicarum) Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cum figuri...

Designs for Book Illustrations

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Methamorphoseos vulgare

Predica del arte del bene morire (sermon on the art of dying well)

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

3 illus. on verso of title page, v. 1. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505). Ref. copy may be in LOT 4444 B. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

p. xciv - verso, v. 1. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

Diptych of Adam & Eve with snake and priest celebrating Mass separated by Jesus on Cross. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505) p. ccxxix - verso, v. 2. Ref. cop... more

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

Jesus and two theives on crosses. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505), p. cci - verso, v. 1. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Quatriregio (Four Realms)

Opera..Triumphi, Soneti, & Canzone..

Francesco Petrarca (Italian, Arezzo, Tuscany 1304–1374 Arquà)

Divina proportione

after Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise)

M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tab...

Written by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century B.C.)

M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tab...

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century B.C.)

Deche di Tito Livio vulgare hystoriate

Titus Livius (Roman, 59 BC–17 AD)

Apulegio volgare, diuiso in undeci libri, novamente stampato & in molt...

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De architectura Libri Dece traducti de lati...

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De architectura Libri Dece traducti de lati...

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century B.C.)

[Two illustrations showing a unicorn and several apes]

Illus. in: Hudson, Hortus sanitatis, London, 1521. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Animals Apes; Unicorn. Sources checked and other information on... more

The Grete Herball

Peter Treveris (British, active 1525–32)

Triompho di Fortuna

Illustrations to Proverbs 10: 4-7

Daniel Hopfer (German, Kaufbeuren 1471–1536 Augsburg)

Illustrations to Proverbs 10: 1-3

Daniel Hopfer (German, Kaufbeuren 1471–1536 Augsburg)

Stanze di M. Pietro Aretino

Le Sorti...intitolate giardino di pensieri

Il terzo libro di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese

Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

[Title page of Extra ordinem classium libri, with border illustrations...

Illus. in: Extra ordinem classium libri / Galenus. Veneti : Apud Haeredes L. Luntae, 1541. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 129.

Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Florentino interpre...

Guido Guidi (Florence 1509–1569 Pisa)

Reigles generales de l'architecture, sur les cincq manieres d'edifices

Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian 15th century

Il primo libro d'architettura di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese. Il secon...

Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

Compendium of Architectural Books by Sebastiano Serlio (Books I-V)

Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

Architecture, ou, Art de bien bastir de Marc Vitruve Pollion, autheur ...

Written by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century B.C.)

Historiae Venetae. Libri XII

Written by Cardinal Pietro Bembo (Italian, 1470–1547)

I Mondi (1552)

Written by Antonio Francesco Doni (Italian, Florence 1513–1574 Venice)

I Marmi

Written by Antonio Francesco Doni (Italian, Florence 1513–1574 Venice)

Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen

Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati ...

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century B.C.)

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati ...

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati ...

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century B.C.)

Lucretia Instructing her Daughters in Needlework

Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) (Italian, Castelnuovo di Garfagnana ca. 1520–ca. 1575 Venice)

Libro primo (-quinto, estraordinario) d'architettura

Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

Le Premier Tome de l'Architecture

Written by Philibert De L'Orme (French, 1515?–1570)

Villa Almerico (Villa Rotunda), from I quattro libri dell'architettura...

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio (Italian, Padua 1508–1580 Vicenza)

Cento Favole Morali (100 moral fables)

Villa Barbaro, from I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Pallad...

[Illustrations of 16th century knives, forks, and other utensils]

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Opera di m. Bartolomeo Scappi. Con il discorso funerale che fu fatto nelle essequie di papa Paulo III. [Venetia : M. Tramezzino, 1574?]. Published in: The tradition of... more

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne'quale dopo un...

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne'quale dopo un...

Tutte l'opere d'architettura

De Humana Physiognomonia. Libri III

Written by Giovanni Battista della Porta (Italian, 1538–1615)

Descrizione del regale apparato per le nozze della serenissima madama ...

Written by Raffaello Gualterotti (Italian, Florence 1543–1639 Florence)

A Booke of Christian Prayers

Richard Day (British, born 1552)

[Illustrations of Johannes Staden's description of the Tuppin Inwa Ind...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 70. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Illustrations of Johannes Staden's description of the Tuppin Inwa Ind...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 56. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

"Morning Glories" (Asagao) chapter from The Tale of Genji (Genji monog...

Tosa School Edo period (1615–1868)

Illustrations to the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Jupiter and Io (.1); Jupit...

The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Yamamoto Shunshō (Japanese, 1610–1682) Edo period (1615–1868)

Illustrations to the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Jupiter and Io (.1); Jupit...

Illustrations to the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Jupiter and Io (.1); Jupit...

Spotprent op de rebelse staat van Holland, 1606

Cartoon on the rebellious state of Holland, 1606

Le due regole della prospettiva practica di M. Iacomo Barozzi da Vigno...

Written by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola (Italian, Vignola 1507–1573 Rome)

Illustratie / door Jacob Matham (1571-1631), tekenaar en graveur, voor...

Overleg naar aanleiding van de komst van nieuwe Romeinse troepen, 69-7...

Voorhoede van de nieuwe Romeinse troepen wordt gekeerd, 69-70

Spotprent op de Roomse Transsubstantiatieleer, 1612

Nieuwe aanval op een Romeinse vesting, 69-70

Uitgeputte Romeinse soldaten smeken Civilis om genade, 69-70

Exhausted Roman soldiers beg for Civilis for mercy, 69-70

Bataafse en Romeinse vloten op de Rijn, 69-70

Romeinse gevangen langs de vesting geleid, 69-70

Civilis onderhandelt met een Romeinse bevelhebber, 69-70

L'Idea della Architettura

Diagrams of proportion and the human body from L'Idea della Architettu...

Spotprent op Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, 1618

Spotprent op de val van paltsgraaf Frederik van Bohemen, 1622

Palazzi di Genova

After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp)

Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: e...

Samuel Ampzing (Dutch, 1590–1632)

Architectur oder Bawmeisterschaft...

After Hans Vredeman de Vries (Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?) Antwerp (?))

Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris

John Parkinson (British, 1567–1650)

A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World: Viz. Asia, Affrica, ...

John Speed (British, Farndon, Cheshire 1551/52–1629 London)

Pyrotchnia or a Discourse of Artificial Fire-Works, A Short Treatise o...

John Babington (British, active 1635)

Theatrum Botanicum, the Theatre of Plants or An Universal and Compleat...

Wilton Garden

The garden of Wilton House (Wiltshire), famous today for its eighteenth-century landscape design containing England's first Palladian bridge, was originally laid out in the mid-1630s by the French-born Isaac de... more

Architectura Privata: Das is Gründtliche Beschreibung...in was form......