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fyeah-history:

Medieval bookmark, 14th - Early 15th Century“Rotating bookmarks were a special kind of bookmark used in medieval Europe. They were attached to a string, along which a marker could be slid up and down to mark a precise level on the page. Attached to the marker was a rotating disk that could indicate the column (usually numbered one to four, indicating the two columns on the left-hand page, and the two columns on the right-hand page).”

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vertigo1871:

Rudolf Perco, Mausoleum, “Der Architekt”, XV, 1909

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Here’s another book recommendation, another of my recent reads I appreciated unusually much: The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund.
As the reviewer in NY Times writes,
“The Beauty and the Sorrow threads together the wartime experiences of 20 more or less unremarkable men and women, on both sides of the war, from schoolgirls and botanists to mountain climbers, doctors, ambulance drivers and clerks. A few of these people will become heroes. A few will become prisoners of war, or lose limbs, go mad or die. Their lives flicker here like votive candles lighted in a church; new ones are added to the mix while some wink out. […]
The best books about World War I have often been oblique, like Paul Fussell’s “Great War and Modern Memory,” or novels, like Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” rather than comprehensive histories. Mr. Englund’s volume joins an unconventional pantheon. His book has the most devastating ending I can remember in a piece of nonfiction. I won’t give it away. But it’s as if he has reached from his book, snatched that dramatis personae page from your fingers, and lighted it with a match.”

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vertigo1871:

Oskar Schober, “Der Architekt”, XIV, 1908

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nickkahler:

J.D. Steingruber, Frontispiece to Architectural Alphabet, 1773

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michaelmoonsbookshop:

beautiful marbled patterns and colours on the fore edges of 18th and 19th century leather bound books

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poboh:

Paris, view of Porte St.Denis, Emil Leonhard Smidt. Germany (1878 - 1954)

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brettkingery:

Village Berendeevka by Viktor Vasnetsov

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brettkingery:

Palace of Tsar Berendei by Viktor Vasnetsov

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brettkingery:

De chiurgica by J. Tagault — Paris, 1543
Gold-tooled brown calf

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campra:

Europa on Flickr.

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