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Bookworm
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Bookworm

Meester van de Haintz Nar · 1494 · letterpress printing; houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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A bookish fool with spectacles and a jester's cap sits with a duster in his hand behind a lectern with books on both sides. Titled with a four-line Latin verse above the image: De inutilibus libris (on useless books).

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printboekillustratiefool, simpleton, numskullstudy'studiolo'librarybook
Credit lineBoekennar. 1494. Meester van de Haintz Nar. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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