Books n stuff
My art collection of medieval illumination
Posted 18th Apr 2026r/artcollecting
My old gal
Posted 6th Dec 2025r/ExoticShorthair
Pleased with my home library of antiquarian and art history books
Posted 30th Jun 2025r/HomeLibraries
Felt like sharing a couple favorites from my collection
Posted 26th May 2025r/artcollecting
Excited to hear what my bookshelves say about my life
Posted 16th Feb 2025r/BookshelvesDetective
Recent illuminated manuscript clippings I've found, and their sister clippings from around the world. (info in comments)
Posted 17th Nov 2024r/Fragmentology
I've shared this breviary MSS before, but the light was hitting it too well today to not snap a pic. (ca. 1500-1525)
Posted 17th Mar 2024r/rarebooks
The 1616 Missale Romanum printed by Plantin with numerous full page engravings after Peter Paul Rubens
Posted 20th Feb 2024r/rarebooks
Part of my small collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts
Posted 17th Sep 2023r/BookCollecting
Just a pretty book of hours from my collection, ca 1450
Posted 8th Aug 2023r/Medieval_palaeography
Would anybody be able to help transcribe this 15th century inscription at the back of a manuscript in my collection? link to manuscript in comments
Posted 20th Jun 2023r/Medieval_palaeography
Collection Highlight: Late 12th century Lectionary leaf used as a paste down in a Spanish Choir Manuscript. This is the oldest manuscript in my collection. Info in comments
Posted 19th Jun 2023r/Medieval_palaeography
A new medieval manuscript in my collection
Posted 1st May 2023r/BookCollecting
new to my collection... beautiful manuscript from around 1500
Posted 1st Jan 2023r/rarebooks
I wanted to share a few highlights of my collection - dating from ~1350-1550
Posted 24th Jul 2022r/rarebooks
1634 title page for an epigrammata printed by the plantin press, alongside the original drawing design for it, drawn by flemmish baroque artist peter paul rubens
Posted 13th Feb 2022r/rarebooks
New to my collection: a hand illuminated printed book of hours, printed by Hardouin circa 1510 in Paris France
Posted 26th Nov 2021r/rarebooks
a manuscript leaf from the end of the 12th century, used as a paste down to a book in my collection
Posted 7th Oct 2021r/rarebooks
a little 16th century sammelband i picked up recently
Posted 4th Oct 2021r/rarebooks
a mysterious ledger i recently bought on a whim. info in comments
Posted 30th Aug 2021r/rarebooks
[french > english] please help translate these inscriptions to a french artists sketch book (photos of the art also included!)
Posted 15th Aug 2021r/translator
Rituum Ecclesiasticorum printed in 1516, with some very well done rubrication
Posted 14th Jul 2021r/BookCollecting
manuscript paste downs on a 16th century binding. (more info in comments)
Posted 3rd Jul 2021r/Fragmentology
i've been trying to research this wax stamp and have been getting no where. i believe it is a bishops seal given the 6 tassle galero, but i am at a loss beyond that. any ideas?
Posted 9th Jun 2021r/heraldry
large gradual fragment on parchment. would love to hear guesses on an age.
Posted 18th May 2021r/Fragmentology
here is the newest edition to my collection... a french book of hours from circa 1450. more photos in comments!
Posted 16th May 2021r/Antiques
not exactly a fragment. only missing the first leaf. book of hours from france circa 1450
Posted 10th May 2021r/Fragmentology
late 13th century parisian bible leaf from my collection
Posted 9th May 2021r/Fragmentology
Under this 1520 book's paste down is a fragment of aristotle's 8th book on metaphysics
Posted 2nd May 2021r/Fragmentology
I havent shared from my book collection in a while on this sub... Here is Part 2 of the works of Gerson published in 1514. The titlepage is by Hans Baldung Grien, a famous assistant to Albrecht Durer, and the illustration of Gerson as a pilgrim is listed as being by Albrecht Durer in Hollstein!
Posted 17th Feb 2021r/BookCollecting
I found this forgotten bookmark buried deep in the gutter of this manuscript gradual
Posted 1st Feb 2021r/ForgottenBookmarks
[crosspost] i found some manuscript waste inside this early 16th century binding. the text is latin written on parchment and i believe it is 15th century or earlier. would any members here be able to offer a hand in deciphering it?
Posted 26th Oct 2020r/latin
The Poetic Works of Horace, published in 1520 with a titlepage designed by Hans Holbein the Younger -- This copy has lots of nice surprises: early manuscript binder's waste, interesting marginalia, early hand coloring, and even functional clasps on a contemporary pigskin binding! (link in comments)
Posted 25th Oct 2020r/rarebooks
Commentaria in Pentateuchum Mosis from 1623. Featuring a title page design attributed to Peter Paul Rubens
Posted 24th Oct 2020r/rarebooks
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