The first book I choose for this exercise is called “Lucidum Perspectivae Speculum” from the post “Greetings_67”. The reason being the similarities in physical characteristics. At first sight it seems that both books have the same dimensions. They are rather large in length and width. In terms of thickness, by taking a closer look one…
Author: Lucija Ratkic
Xenotheka_81
For my first try at working with Alice and the Xenotheka library I immediately choose “architecture” as the topic of conversation. At first, I was not quite sure, what keywords to type into the research engine. Then I figured, why not to start with the title of my book “Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae”. To be honest,…
Argument_81
The title of the book is “Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae”. It was published in the year 1739 and was written in Latin. The title does not reveal in depth what the content is going to be about, but we know that it has something to do with the exercises of Vitruvius the first. There is also…
Greetings_81
The reasons why I chose these two pages are the beautiful initials which I immediately connect to old books, the detailed drawing at the top of page 141 and the interesting concept and explanation on how it is constructed on page 277. The handmade sheets are glued and stitched together again by hand and bound…