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diogenesprintco · 7 months ago

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"Pegaſe eſt une grāt beſte terrible et eſpouentable Et naiſt en Ethiopie et a la forme dung cheval et les aiſles cōme une aigle : mais elles ſont moult plus grandes / et ſi a la teſte armee et garnie de cornes."

I was reading an Internet Archive scan of Le Jardin de santé (a 15th century herbal and bestiary originally published in German) for inspiration as I wanted to make a couple woodblock-style floral prints for t-shirts/patches, but kept getting distracted by made-up creatures and antiquated French spelling.

#medieval & early modern authors:#so there's this ~beast~#yeah it's from ethiopia you've probably never heard of it...#le jardin de santé #gart der gesundheit #hortus sanitatus #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #pegasus #also i made this semi-transparent brown that looks like oak gall ink out of sepia charbonnel etching ink copper schminke ink and extender 👍#not that it would have been used in printing...but i'm def gonna carve the 'noix de galle' illustration just to use this colour again

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