The Commonplace Book
Woodcuts and pictures from other people’s books, copied out with a caption apiece, as early modern readers kept commonplace books. First gathered on Twitter: #WoodcutWednesday, #NotALion and the manuscripts.
Sixteenth century
Reason is making out with a random woman while your wife sleeps beside you.
- From
- Pierre Gringore, Here begynneth the castell of laboure
- Printed
- London: Richard Pynson, 1505?
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 12380)
Sixteenth century
Time to make the doughnuts!
- From
- Pierre Gringore, Here begynneth the castell of laboure
- Printed
- London: Richard Pynson, 1505?
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 12380)
Sixteenth century
The House of Rest–well, except for the ladies. Then it's the House of Cooking.
- From
- Pierre Gringore, Here begynneth the castell of laboure
- Printed
- London: Richard Pynson, 1505?
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 12380)
Sixteenth century
"Every Fool knows you walk carrying the pointy side down, devil," Francis chastised.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Hairy Jesus Carpenter successfully casts an Expecto Patronum spell.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Randall immediately regretted entrusting his bag of devils to someone like Charlie.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Vanity, thy hairdresser is a devil.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
This is why you shouldn’t get nose-rings, kids.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Goats and the ladies who love them.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
“Camelot!” “Camelot!” “Camelot!” “It’s only a model.”
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Early moderns took their games of musical chairs rather seriously.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Every time Hank and Belinda found some alone time, this horny devil wanted to join in.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
No one in the department wanted to tell the chair he was an ass.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
Sixteenth century
Just a dude in armor standing on a devil.
- From
- Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
- Printed
- 1569
- Image from
- Early English Books Online (STC 1581)
