Blog Archives: October 2018

• Owls for Halloween

  Posted on October 30, 2018

  Though our abundant holdings of illustrated ornithological works feature many an owl, this Halloween we turn instead to Hootie Toots of Hollow Tree […]

• Mandrake in Dodoens’ New Herbal (1578)

  Posted on October 12, 2018

  In honor of this weekend’s symposium “On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s Mandrake at 500,” we offer a look at the account and depiction of the […]

• “Stupendous and Marvelous Secrets”: Secret No More (Part II)

  Posted on October 3, 2018

  We continue our exploration of so-called books of secrets (secreti italiani) in the Duveen Collection, recently digitized as part of the subcollection […]