This coat of arms is a circle of flowers (Lillering). Green PCBs and oak wood are a nice combination. There … More
Category: History
Coat of arms of the accountant
I like history and I like medieval European coats of arms. Of course, nowadays, their design has its own rules … More
Old (Ancient Egyptian) solid wood items
Ancient Egyptian wooden furniture. I love this kind of old wood items: aged and natural. I especially chose the ones … More
Old High German Psalter by Notker the German
Old High German translation and commentary on the Psalms by the monk Notker the German of St. Gall, dating from … More
Aristotle’s Historia animalium
1. Since the 9th century, Aristotle’s Historia animalium, an orderly description of various creatures, had been available in an Arabic … More
Lovely letters
Psalter produced in the second half of the 9th century, possibly in northern France. Following the Psalms, which were heavily … More
Special letters
Animals, birds and other interesting things
Artist Hans Haggenberg. About 1488.
Depiction of women in heraldry
St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch’s (1462-1491) book of heraldry, containing 1,626 coats of arms of prominent people from the laity … More