Hi - Thanx for the tip on this. I only have digital facsimiles of emblem books. I have to correct the post on the dating of the editions which the illos are taken from. It is '1550' (not 1559.) and '1621' http://www.adelphi.it/novita/244/4010/4011/4050/libri.asp?isbn=8845924416 In fact I can't find ...

I shall don my clamus and think of Merovingian kings and hoo. wOw ! But I'm having trouble picturing you in a ' clamus '. There's no wikipedia page or any other definition online, and it's not even in my 'Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary'. Not an english word I guess. There is a met...

Yes Huck - this is exactly what my uncle taught me. Spooky only because at the time I did not care so much about it, but that now I find myself returning to it from such a different angle so late in life. :-O RE Labarinto, I just found a neat post on a magic forum discussing Ghisi's book in the con...

I know of another fortune telling game book in english. It is an emblem book by George Wither from 1635. 'A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne' . It has 2 dials and instructions for using it to tell your fortune on the last pages. http://www.archive.org/details/collectionofembl00with The en...

Well, I have no personal memory of this Sutton Hoo you speak of. But it could go a long way in explaining my unreasoning phobia for penshioners with metal detectors. It is a little spooky however, being on this forum. I had just stumbled across a digital facsimile of the Ghisi book at the Herzog Aug...

Well, I might as well post another link. This to I nnocenzo Ringhieri -'Cento givochi liberali, et d'ingegno' (100 witty games) . There is already an edition at the Warburg Institute in the Games section of online facsimiles, as posted above in this thread. I just found another copy at archive.org -...

Thanx Huck - error corrected for 'homepage'. - I do have a deep and abiding interest in the Mantegna deck and I look forward to joining in on some of those "lively discussions". I have the modern Llewellyn version and it's a beauty. - Trionfi is a great site. Lots of source material and im...

Well, new to the forum, and a year late, but I was excited to find this page when googling for Andrea Ghisi and Laberinto, after just finding a digital facsimile of his book (Which I've longed for, for several years but never found until now). Here is a link to it and a downloadable pdf at the Herzo...