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Inscription within the Plantin Polyglot Bible (Vol. 1) / printed as "Biblia Polyglotta" by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp between 1568 and 1573 as an expression of loyalty to King Philip II of Spain / purchased in 1669 by Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK
Title: Bibliotheca chalcographica : illustrium virtute atque erudition in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum…Collectore Jano Jacobo Boissardo, ves: sculptore Jan: Theod: de Bry Chalcogr:
Author: Boissard, Jean Jacques 1528-1602
Published: Francofurti : Impensis Johannis Ammonii Bibliopola
Year: 1650-1654
Call number: NE 218 .B657 1650
Physical Description: 9 parts in 1 volume. 438 portraits, 21 cm. The cover is most likely vellum with gold decorations, particularly the spine. The fore edges are yellow. There is an index and yellow and blue striped headbands. Almost all illustrations (portraits) and very little writing.
About this book: Also known as “De Bry’s Portraits of Illustrious Men." Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet. He traveled in Germany, Italy and Greece but became ill and died in France (Wikipedia).
Note that there were multiple de Brys. It is unclear as to which one that this book is referring to.
Johann Theodor de Bry was a Flemish-German engraver and publisher. He sometimes collaborated with Jean Jacques Boissard (Wikipedia).
Sources cited:
Jean-Jacques Boissard (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Boissard
Johann Theodor de Bry (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Theodor_de_Bry
I went to Colorado thinking I would be able to journal and write quite a bit, but in truth I was so busy experiencing new adventures that I didn’t get to write but one page. I don’t have any regrets about that- I just surprised myself that I was so consumed with the mountains that I didn’t have time to stop and think.
Now that I am home I find that I have so very much that I want to write about but do not have the time to write… such is life!
Theme: Musings And Ramblings
Year Six Of My 365 Project
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Signet Books Q1702
Published 1959; 3rd printing (Canadian) 1962
Cover Artist: unknown
Rand referred to Atlas Shrugged as a mystery novel, "not about the murder of man's body, but about the murder – and rebirth – of man's spirit". Her stated goal of writing the text was "to show how desperately the world needs prime movers and how viciously it treats them" and to portray "what happens to a world without them".
Writing brush calligraphy at Houston Zen Center, Houston, TX on April 29, 2011
Freehand from photo < two hours after event
Pen / Moleskine
Baltika - envelope posted on the Mikhail Lermontov, 1970. The stamp commemorates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic. "Posted from the High Seas"
The Baltika also called at the Tilbury landing stage in the Thames.
The 7,494 ton turbo-electric twin-screw steamship Baltika, built in 1940 in the Netherlands as the Vyacheslav Molotov, was renamed Baltika in 1957. For most of her career she ran on the Leningrad to London service for the Baltic State Steamship Line but she also traded in the Soviet Far East, to Murmansk and made voyages to Cuba.
A sister ship of the Iosif Stalin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Stalin-class_passenger_ship
Broken up 1987 in Pakistan at Gadani Beach, where several other ships from the GDR were also scrapped, including the Sweden-DDR ship Rügen from the Trelleborg - Sassnitz route
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltika_%28Schiff%29
During the 1980 Olympics the ship served as an hotel in Tallinn. It contained the restaurant "Penguin".
With operated leg bent slightly, push heel into bed without bending knee further. Hold 5-10 seconds. May alternate legs. Repeat 10-15 times. Do 5-7 sessions per day while in the hospital and 3 sessions per day when at home.
Title: Treaty of Alliance with France
Production Date: February 6, 1778
Treaty of Alliance with France, 1778; International Treaties and Related Records, 1778-1974; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11; National Archives.
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=2524341
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
This is the garage that belongs to the boathouse. Dylan Thomas used this as his writing shed. This is where he wrote Under Milkwood. The location is amazing, tucked away on the bank of the estuary.
"when I'll be home again Mom, and knowing that you, pop and Joey will be there too-makes it millions easier.
Well I've talked a lot and said nuttin'-but anyhow I feel better-when you get this I should be over Mom and safe!
Keep writing and I'll be happy.
Loads of love to you Mom
In signing this letter I remain forever and hope I am worth of being
Your son
Pat"
From the Patrick W. Klein Collection (COLL/5043), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Beijing, China
Golden Chinese characters on a wall in the Yonghe Temple in Beijing, China.
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Jose M.J. Lerma (active end of 19th Century)
a.) Letras y Figuras (Jose M.J. Lerma)
inscribed “Recuerdo del año de 1896”
pencil on paper
23” x 31” (58 cm x 79 cm)
b.) Letras y Figuras (Maria V. Tiangco)
dated 1896
pencil on paper
23” x 31” (58 cm x 79 cm)
Starting bid: P 300,000
Literature:
Cariño, Jose Maria A., Jose Honorato Lozano: Filipinas 1847, Ars Mundi, Philippinae, Makati City, 2002, p. 49 (illustrated)
At the Peabody Museum in Massachusetts, one can suddenly be startled to attention by two paintings that at first look like a presentation of the Alphabet, but if looked at second blink, are representations of Manila Bay in the 1850s. The age tinted paintings on manila paper depicting, vignettes of nineteenth century Philippine life, ingeniously arranged, delineated and highlighted with color to form the letters spelling out a certain person’s name are some of the most quaint and endlessly fascinating relics of Filipino culture in the Spanish time.
The Letras y Figuras as works of art trace their origin way back to the art of book illumination in the Middle Ages. Their introduction into the Philippines is attributed to the religious missionaries. A practical minded artistic priest must have used them to interest his parishioners, all at once, with reading, writing and the rudiments of art. The earliest known painter in this style is Jose Honorato Lozano of the Sampaloc district of old Manila. Although one may still come upon many Letras y Figuras in private collections in the Philippines today, caution must be used before attributing these to Lozano, as he had many contemporaries and followers.
There is, for example, an obvious difference between Lozano’s style and that of the “J-O-S-E M.J. L-E-R-M-A” limner, Jose M.J. Lerma himself.
Lozano’s works are characterized with a penchant for rigid, straight lines which render his human figures a little stiff looking, even if depicted in action. Lerma gave his figures more curvilinear contours, which gave them a sense of free movement. Another noticeable characteristic of Lozano’s work is his “horror vacui,” squeezing his artistic material into his visual area; while Lerma’s work possesses an elegant sense of open, flowing space.
There is a self-taught attempt at architectural perspective too, drawn just like how a child might draw old houses that can be seen with the depiction of a Philippine Pueblo and the undulating horizon in the space between “J-O-S-E M J and L-E-R-M-A”. This architectural depiction permits Lerma to release an undercurrent of pleasant irrationality that turns a snapshot view into a caprice.
Jose M.J Lerma, the artist, belongs to a generation of Letras y Figuras artists who did works at a time when Jose Honorato Lozano was already feebly old or long dead. Thus, all these latter artists such as Lerma deserve a separate study for they represent another aspect, a latter development, of the art of Letras Y Figuras.
For example, Jose M.J. Lerma also limned “M-A-R-I-A V. T-I-A-N-C-O”. The space between Maria V. and Tianco features a medallion flanked by half figures. The late 19th century book “Handbook of Ornament” by Franz Sales Meyer (First edition: Carlsruhe, 1888; Fourth Edition: Carlsruhe 1892) says about the half figure: “From Antique times up to the present day, Half figures have been popular as startings for ornaments…below the breast or stomach, often defined by a girdle, there is developed a sort of inverted foliage cup, from which the scroll ornament grows.”
Both “J-O-S-E M J L-E-R-M-A” and “M-A-R-I-A V T-I-A-N C-O” are bordered with an elaborate interlacement of bands.
Lot 69 of the Leon Gallery auction on 11 June 2016. For more details, please see leon-gallery.com/v2/gallery/AuctionData-23-Spectacular-Mi...
This woman faithfully writes letters to those she loves, despite the crippling arthritis in her hands. These hand shots were part of a slide show on the "hands of heaven on earth".
I met this girl when I stayed in a hostel in Barcelona. She was writing home and I just thought that was really sweet.
A bunch of shots of a paper that Riccardo and I were working on, after I'd scribbled all over it in one of my editing passes. I primarily took these so I could show my students what I do to the writing of professional co-authors so they don't feel so bad when I scribble all over their work.
This display was created using actual student work to show examples of the writing process. It was displayed on the glass partition separating the library from the library computer lab.
and if all of our days are done
why do I fall
I just fall in love with you
I set this as my desktop background and it looks pretty effing spectacular.
This is SOOC. I was going to tweak the colours, but it looks good this way. & I could crop out the window frame at the bottom, but it seemed unnecessary.
I'm pretty chuffed with the focusing too. It was just out my bedroom window one November afternoon. Two months ago today, in fact.
I only have one lecture on a Wednesday, and there was a part of me hoping it would be cancelled due to snow, just so I could have a six day weekend. Basically, a week off. It wasn't, so I had to traipse onto campus. Winter Graduation is taking place, and it felt weird to be watching as, PRESUMING I DON'T FAIL, that'll be us this summer.
Anyway, I'm curled up warm in bed, listening to JCB's The Darling Buds (WHY WON'T THEY RELEASE AN ALBUM?!?!), and contemplating if I should go wash my plates (I really should), read some more of a uni book, listen to a podcasted lecture (I have to do that before tomorrow), write some poetry (I really hate writing poetry and I'm only doing it because it's a set assignment), or stay in bed and read something of my own choosing. I decided to upload to flickr to delay any decision making.
I'm seeing my brother this week. He called me for the first time in months. We talk loads when we're both home, but otherwise he kind of drops off the face of the planet to anyone in the family apart from my Dad, and even he has to track him down sometimes.
It was snowing this morning. By the time I was dressed and ready to go it had stopped, which is probably a good thing as I'd straightened my hair, but it's quite pretty walking out in the snow when you know you have someplace warm to go. (That sentence gives the wrong impression of me. I wouldn't have been upset about how I looked if the snow had frizzed my hair. The only reason I straightened my hair was because I slept on it while it was still a bit damp and it had poofed up like a lion's mane and I felt pressured by general society to at least tame it a little. The easiet way to do that was straightening it. I was actually being lazy when I straightened it and the snow frizzing my hair would have made me roll my eyes rather than be upset about how I looked.)
I think it's a sign that I'm starting to feel the stress of third year that I'm back on flickr. As a teen I used flickr as a way of dealing with my unhappiness and stress from work. Admittedly, I didn't post on flickr a lot last year because it made me think of Ben (still does) and I have no idea why I didn't post more in first year because I absolutely hated where I was living and the people I was living with, but obviously it's work stress that drives me here these days, rather than unhappiness.
I have stuff to do. I should go do it. I just wanted to post this photo because it's pretty gorgeous to me.
started another writing class tonight at the University. This one is intermediate and will hopefully jump-start my writing again
*yesterdays photo*
sorry, again....i've been a bit out of taking photos recently: but thats going to change!
last week it was summer...its now completly autumnal. LOVELY :)
'If love is one way, it is punishment. If love is both ways, it is enjoyment.' - His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi.
Description on front of card: Just Resting in the Shade at Chautauqua, Ohio
Postmark: April 8, 1915 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Message on the back of the card:
Dear Hazel,
So glad to hear from you
All well expect it with some New Kelly is at [Sommer?]
We have been down here several times
[?] is playing on the [?]
Left recently [?]
Your mother and sister all [?]
Love [?]
Addressed to:
Miss Hazel Dessey
Los Angeles, California
Cancel Type: Machine cancel
Stamp: Green 1-cent
Era: Divided Back Era
Condition: Used. Writing on the back. Stain on the back. Posted.
Publisher: Unknown
we had a couple of these taken when we first started going out, 2 years and a couple months ago and still truckin on ha!..we wrote on the back of them. you know just so we were reminded ;) this is Jons to me.
He is the funniest person i have ever met! I also hated all things romantic until he came along, he's changed me into something i never thought i'd be, and i love it!
I also found it hard to trust anyone but he's made me realise after a very hard time i had that there is people out there who do good in this life and are not out to hurt people who really care.
I almost always write the first draft on paper, my sister calls it long hand.
I don't like typing all that much but I love hand writing.
Restored ghost signs on a wall in St. Petersburg, Florida. The signs indicated the stores that once occupied the building. These included Ermatinger's exclusive hatters, Hayward's toy shop, and Wisteria Confectionary. The signs revealed when the building next door was torn down, and they were restored in September 2012 by the Hubert Rutland Sr. Family Trust. The sign was originally painted by the Lozo Brothers.
Ermatinger Hat Shop was one of two St. Pete Ermatinger stores. They sold the finest Ecuadorian and Panama hats. The family-run business started in 1842 in New York and moved to the 'Burg in 1910. Their renovating department was one of the most modern in Florida. In fact, H.L. Ermatinger Sr. was awarded $500 for writing the best scientific article on hat renovating in the country.
Hayward's Toy Shop opened on December 17th, 1921. They were known for carrying Mavis Candy and received new games every day. Locals frequented the shop for items such as noisemakers, party favors, Dennison Crepe paper costumes for New Year's and Jack-o-Lanterns for Halloween.
Wisteria Confectionary stayed open from 7am until midnight. The store hosted receptions, tea and card parties, club meetings and even weddings. They served hot chocolate with whipped cream, coffee, mousse, fruit sherbets, hot tea and wafers, fresh orange juice and Better Ice Cream (sold exclusively here). Wisteria changed locations in 1922, when they moved next door.