RMMBD7A9–Horoscopes - various horoscope charts of famous men, from Ebenezer Sibly's 'The Science of Astrology, or Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences', 1790.
RMMC6F9G–WITCHCRAFT - Portrait of the famous beauty Jane Shore, who is supposed to have bewitched many men, including her lover, Edward IV of England. After an engraving by Bartelozzi
RMMC6EKF–PROPHECY - DELPHI Imaginative view of the appearance of the famous Tripod at Delphi, used by the ancient Prophetesses. From Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities. The survival of one of the serpent-legs of the Tripod, in Istanbul, suggests that the reconstruction proposed by Beaumont is fanciful.
RMMC6GN1–MAZES - CHARTRES The thirteenth century maze in nave of Chartres cathedral is probably the most famous in the world - however, properly speaking it is not a pure maze, so much as a dancing ground. Once having embarked upon its pathway, there is no chance of becoming lost: the path leads inexorably to the inner circle, wherein (if old records are to be believed) there was the image of Theseus fighting with the Minotaur. The precise form of this Tauromachia is unknown, but it may have resembled the image superimposed on this plan of the Chartres maze.
RMMC6EPH–CHRISTIAN - CHRIST & HELL Engraving by Michael Burghers depicting Christ liberating sinners from the mouth of Hell. This is the famous fold-out engraving, 'Hearne's Print of the Descent into Hell', used in William Hone, Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially he English Miracle Plays, 1823. The engraving is of importance because the lexicographer, Dr. Johnson, took the word arognt issuing from the mouth of the right-hand devil, as an authority for the word aroint - which word appears twice in Shakespeare.
RMMC6EKK–NOSTRADAMUS - PORTRAIT OF NOSTRADAMUS A woodcut portrait of Michel Nostradamus, probably made by Leonard Gaultier, in the sixteenth century). The portrait was that numbered 129 in the series of 144 portraits of famous individuals, Le Theatre d'Honneur de plusieurs princes anciens et modernes, 1618. Unlike the majority of 'portraits', which appeared on title pages and prefaces to Nostradamus Propheties, this picture is generally believed to be authentic - perhaps based on a lost sketch known to Gaultier, or one of his staff.
RMMBD7R1–RUNES - ANGLO SAXON RUNES Among the most widely used of Runes are those of the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, which was derived from the Germanic runes - especially those used in Schleswig-Holstein. By the tenth century, these consisted of 33 sigils, or signs, each of which is given here. The runes on the famous runic casket of Auzon are derived from this series [images of this runes-casket are archived in the Charles Walker Collection]. Although the runes, and their names, changed slightly through the several centuries of their use, the most commonly used names (corresponding to the runes reprodu
RMMC6E9K–NOSTRADAMUS - HENRI II OF FRANCE AND CATHERINA DEI MEDICI Nineteenth-century Mezzotint engraving of the Portrait of Henri II and his wife, Catherine de' Medici. The original is in the Pitti Palace. Nostradamus famously prophecied the death of Henri in a duel: two or three years earlier, Nostradamus had dedicated to Henri his famous collection of Prophecies. Catherine was an ardent fan of Nostradamus, and commissioned him to cast the horoscopes of her children - the future rulers of France. During her progress through France, she called on Nostradamus at Salon, in Provence. He set out the
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