Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Book Arts Tuesday-Bird Book with Bird Feathers


Hyperallergic.com has an article by Allison Meier about a book in the collection of the McGill Library called The Feather Book. Created in 1618 by Dionisio Minaggio, the chief gardener in the State of Milan, it contains illustrations of birds made from feathers. You can see more of these fascinating pages here.

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