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.

WTFF?

Bonus woodcut on the verso with a fine #NotADolphin pillow.

Bonus woodcut on the verso with a fine #NotADolphin pillow.

And, of course, the @rijksmuseum had its fair share of #NotALion.

Our Airbnb in Brussels has the best wallpaper. It has #NotALion, #NotARhinoceros, and #NotAnElephant. It's like it was meant to be.

A big-headed St. Jerome and his trusty #NotALion. Albrecht Bouts, 1473-1549, The Patience of Saint Jerome. @FineArtsBelgium

Belgium/ the Netherlands as a #NotALion! Museum Plantin-Moretus

Virgil Solis' Semele from his series for Ovid's Metamorphoses. ca. 1570

TFW a random woodcut you don't even remembering ordering shows up in the mail. My first Adam and Eve woodcut with a badass bonus #NotALion.

Sure, I can't identify it apart from being (probably) 16th Century, German, but look at that face.

Cleaning up my bookshelf and reminded of that time my #WoodcutWednesday was acknowledged in print. Hope to get back to it when on parental leave between poopy diapers and short naps. Expect sleepless lunacy.

Too late for #WoodcutWednesday, but I scored my first Whore of Babylon cut. 1541 by Regnault

Bought my first Foxe’ Book of Martyrs woodcut.

Seventeenth century

“And that, son, is why we are a dog family.” Reynard the Fox.

From: Edward Reynolds, The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges…
Printed: 1636
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 20932)

Seventeenth century

Smash the patriarchy. …Or, maybe, #GnoshThePatriarchy?

From: Edward Reynolds, The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges…
Printed: 1636
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 20932)

Had no idea that #WoodcutWednesday had such a life over on Instagram. Glad people are still keeping it alive.

All I do is shitpost.

And check out this adorable(?) #NotADog engaged in some sausage-snatching.

This is fine.

Image from: The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.360.21

New woodcut acquisition. Full page woodcut from the 1558 edition of Orlando Furioso.

It has some great details.

But these mannerist borders are just amazing.

Also picked up a cut from Brant’s Ship of Fools. This one from 1610 has a bonus #NotALion.

I made a thing.