Quill Gallery

Duns Scotus (1266-1308). Philosopher-theologians. Scriptum q

Duns Scotus (1266-1308). Philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. Scholasticism school. Scriptum quartum a Joanne Duns Scoto super quarto sententiarum editum. Edit, 1517. Library of Catalonia. Spain. Engraving of Duns Scotus as medieval copyist

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

1266 1308, Ages, Amanuensis, Blessed, Book, Christianism, Christianity, Copier, Copies, Copyist, Doctor, Duns, Europe, Franciscan, High, Historical, History, Ioannes, Johannes, John, Kingdom, Literature, Making, Medieval, Middle, Monk, Philosopher, Philosophy, Quill, Religious, Scholasticism, Scotland, Scottish, Scottland, Scotus, Subtilis, Subtle, Theologian, United, Witter, Written, Writter

Jurisprudence by H. M. Bateman

Jurisprudence by H. M. Bateman is an humorous illustration of a Judge sitting in the courtroom balancing a feather or quill on his nose, while the court look on with a mixture of bewilderment and merriment. The defendant looks shocked but the policeman is smiling. Date: 1924

© Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Amusing, Balancing, Bateman, Bewilderment, Court, Courtroom, Defendant, Feather, Funny, Humorous, Humorously, Humour, Illustration, Judge, Jurisprudence, Merriment, Mixture, Nose, Policeman, Quill, Shocked, Sitting, Smiling, Wig, Wigs

Quill moss or false fern moss, Cyathophorum bulbosum

Quill moss or false fern moss, Cyathophorum bulbosum, native to Australia. Leskea pennata, Hookeria pennata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by F. Plee, drawn and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

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