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From a manuscript dated 1893 with a seal which bears the words: Murajiah va taftish shud. Found on the Wellcome digital library: https://wellcomecollection.org/works

A 1957 children’s book illustrated by legendary designer Paul Rand, and written by his then-wife Ann. Read more here: https://www.paulrand.design/writing/books/sparkle-and-spin.html

The illustrations that adorn more than 100 of the herbal’s pages are captivating on their own. Each accompanies short descriptions of a remedy and how people may prepare it (although these entries may not have actually served as practical guides). Small winged creatures appear above a treatment for spider bites, for example, and a snake and scorpion in battle illustrate a recipe made from dried heliotrope and wine, which was purportedly used to…

An antiphonal from France/​ Burgundy, 1st half of 16th Century https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/salVIII16/0029/thumbs

In 1923, a flurry of colorful postcards heralded the first major Bauhaus school exhibition. Both students and established artists including Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, and Herbert Bayer offered snapshots of the German modernist aesthetic that would majorly influence art and design for the rest of the 20th century. https://hyperallergic.com/221572/the-exuberant-postcard-art-of-the-first-bauhaus-exhibition/