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Hi John -- Thanks! In Greensboro for the months; I...

2011-07-20T15:52:18.080-04:00

Hi John -- Thanks! In Greensboro for the months; I'll come check out the exhibit (and say hi) when I'm back in Durham. Enjoying the new digital traces of what's going on at UNC-CH!

You may be interested in seeing the Charles Estien...

2011-07-15T16:55:25.412-04:00

You may be interested in seeing the Charles Estienne anatomical books we have at UNC. One is on exhibition now. (We have the first Latin and the French edition, which contains extra woodcuts.)

Some images online are here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/da_g_I-A-3-02.html

And here:
http://anatomyofgender.northwestern.edu/estienneImage03.html

Here is a bit more about the exhibit, if you are interested: http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/rbc/index.php/2011/07/14/weve-been-busy-but-now-were-back/

It is worth a look (especially for you, I would think). You've mentioned the Rabanus Maurus two-colored grid poetry, I believe, which was used to illustrate the poster for the exhibit.

Yeah! And, possibly, it's a realization that b...

2011-06-12T09:36:05.076-04:00

Yeah! And, possibly, it's a realization that bodies are better read as books rather than vice versa...

Thanks! Remmelin's great. It'd be interest...

2011-06-07T12:57:30.986-04:00

Thanks! Remmelin's great. It'd be interesting to think about the explanatory text surrounding the flapped bodies (and sometimes reprinted images of the paper organs, too, if I'm remembering correctly?) as a kind of dissection of the book form onto a fugitive sheet.

Glad to read about this! A nice earlier example I ...

2011-06-07T11:30:42.855-04:00

Glad to read about this! A nice earlier example I had to catalogue the other week but which the Hardin Library has totally beaten me in bringing to the amazing technicolor internet: Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum Microcosmicum (1619).

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/exhibits/imaging/remmelin/index.html

The first authorized edition was 1619-- it included textual keys to the flappy images...but earlier on in 1613 a few of Remmelin's friends (?) with access to his ideas/drawings funded a printing of the book without any explanatory text.

Long time admirer of yr blog by the by...