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Posted by: Marianna Stell
Monty Python's Rabbit of Caerbannog is not the only killer bunny. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division has a fifteenth-century Birgittine manuscript from Mariënwater that contains a variation on this visual tradition.
Posted in: 15th Century, History of the Book, Illuminated Manuscript, Illustrated Book, Low Countries, Manuscript and Letterpress (Hand Press)
Posted by: Marianna Stell
Did the earliest printers know what print was? Book historian Anna Dlabacova, former fellow in the W. Kluge Center and senior university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, offers some observations about what a 15th-century book from the Netherlands can teach us about culture and innovation.
Posted in: 15th Century, Low Countries, Manuscript and Letterpress (Hand Press), Provenance