Liber Collection (#3)

GESSNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology

RECESVINTUS, Flavius ( -672). Visigoth King (653-672). Visigothic Code, also known as Forum iudicum, Liber Iudiciorum or Lex Visigothorum

Liber ordinum maior, 11th c Mozarabic chant
Liber ordinum maior. Ms 4. 1052. Tradition A Castilian-Leonese of Old Hispanic or Visigothic chant. Biblical codex to the lecture of religious services. Mozarabic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN

Crowning of a King & Queen in the Liber Regalis
One of the four illuminations in the Liber Regalis, a guide to the Coronation ceremony following the details of the Fourth Recension from the 14th century

Source Size = 4398 x 3184
THE PASS OF ST. GOTHARD, FROM TURNERs " LIBER STUDIORUM", 1880

SHIPPING, FROM TURNERs LIBER STUDIORUM, 1873
" SHIPPING, " FROM TURNERs LIBER STUDIORUM, 1873

Richard Earlom after Claude Lorrain (British, 1743 - 1822), Landscape No. 15 from " Liber Veritatis", mezzotint and etching in brown

Minerva protects the innocence against the temptation, Johannes Glauber, 1656 - 1726

Liber maurusiarum duplicium, print maker: Balthazar van den Bos, 1528 - 1580

Venus crowned by Bacchus, Arnold Houbraken, Lucas Cloppenburg (publisher), 1710

Bacchus with glass, Jacob Matham, 1599 - 1600

Having created the universe, the Earth and all living creatures, including man, God put Adam into a deep sleep and created Eve from Adams rib

Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) holding up hands to show stigmata. Italian. Founder of the Franciscan order. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg 1493. Woodcut

Martyrdom of St Peter who is said to have been crucified at Rome with head, not feet, nearest the ground. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg, 1495. Woodcut

Conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi Nuremberg Chronicle, Nuremberg 1493. Woodcut

Gentile da Foligno (d. 1348) examining a sample of urine. Gentile wrote a great many
Gentile da Foligno (d.1348) examining a sample of urine. Gentile wrote a great many commentaries on earlier medical authorities, as well as original works

Distillation: Still in water bath (bain-marie), showing an Alembic. From Braunschweig Liber de arte distillandi, Strasbourg, 1500. Hand-coloured woodcut

Adam and Eve, tempted by the Serpent, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are expelled from the Garden of Eden by the Angel of the Lord

Death triumphant. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle), 1493. Skeletons anatomically inaccurate, especially bones of the pelvis. Woodcut

Averroes (Ibn Rushd) 1126-1198 full name Abu Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd, eminent medieval Islamic philosopher, native of Cordova

Avenzoar (Ibn Zohr) c1072-1162. Arab physician, native of Seville: noted clinician. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg 1493. Woodcut

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 980-1037, Arab physician and philosopher. An interpreter of Aristotle to Islam: compiled encyclopaedia of medical knowledge

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by earthquake c. 1900 BC: Lots wife turned
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by earthquake c.1900 BC: Lots wife turned to pillar of salt for disobeying Gods order not to look back

Geocentric universe and the hierarchies of cherubims and seraphims, etc. leading to God. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi, (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg, 1493. Woodcut

Distillation 1500. Three alembics stand on top of furnace. The distillate condenses in caps on top of vessels and flows down into collecting bottles

Distillation 1500. Distilling using double pelicans. From Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus by Hieronmus Braunschweig. (Strasbourg, 1500)

Distillation 1500. The Rosenhut, a form of still. From Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus by Hieronmus Braunschweig. (Strasbourg, 1500)

Isaac Judaeus physician to the rulers of Tunisia. 9th-10th century. Judaeus (c855-c955) was one of the first whose works were translated from Arabic to Latin

Jan Huss (1369-1415) Heretical Bohemian theologian. Burnt at Constance for preaching the teachings of Wycliffe. Woodcut from Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle)

View of fortified city with a Cog, a type sailing vessel, in foreground. Watergate bottom right. From Hartman Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle), Nuremberg, 1493, Woodcut

Joseph interpreting Pharaohs dream as meaning there would be seven fat years and seven lean years. Potiphars wife inviting to bed, invitation which he refused, points to Josephs integrity

St Thomas Aquinas (c1225-1274) Italian philosopher and theologian. Joined Dominican order and studied under Albertus Magnus at Cologne

The Reign of Antichrist: woodcut by Michel Volgemuth for Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg 1493

Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian: monk at Jarrow
Venerable Bede (c.673-735) Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian: monk at Jarrow, Northumberland, holding open a book

Comet of 684 (Halley). From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) 1493. Woodcut

The burning of Jews in Germany shown in a coloured woodblock illustration from Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle) By Hartmann Schedel(1493)

Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus - c480-524) Roman philosopher and statesman. His commentaries on Aristotle and the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry became the standard medieval European texts

Giovanni Boccaccio de Certaldo (1313-75) Italian writer, author of the Decameron (1358). Woodcut from Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel (Nuremberg, 1493)

Solon (c640-559 BC) Greek lawyer, poet and merchant. Woodcut from Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Harmann Schedel (Nuremberg, 1493)

Liber Feudorum Maior. end 12th c. Royal cartularium made by order of Alfonso el Casto. Cover depicting the king Alfonso giving orders to Ramon Calders about the Royal Archive. Romanesque art

Liber Feudorum Maior. end 12th c. Oath of allegiance. Royal cartularium made by order of Alfonso el Casto. Fol. 12 (front). Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Barcelona

Liber Horarum (14th c. ). Sheet 2v. Ascension
Liber Horarum (14th c.). Sheet 2v. Ascension of Christ and Arrival of the Holy Spirit. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library

AVICENNA (980-1037). Arab physician and philosopher

Gregory I The Great, Saint (540-604). Pope of
" Gregory I The Great, Saint (540-604). Pope of the Catholic Church (590-604). " Liber moralium et beatum Job", published in Leiden by Jacobus Marischal (1522). SPAIN. Barcelona

AVICENNA (980-1037)

The Crowning of a Queen
" The Crowning of a Queen", from an Authority of c. 1373: One of the four Illuminations in " Liber Regalis, " a manuscript of the Coronation Service in Westminster Abby Library

Mutus Liber - 6
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) Adding and Distilling the Ingredients 6 of 15

Tasso / Jerusalem Liber
LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA title page of the poem by Torquato Tasso describing the siege of Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade

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