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Historical Pictures / Containing an Idea of Universal History: A Brief Summary Depiction of the Most Prominent Spiritual and Secular History through the Four Monarchies ..., by Johannes Buno, Lüneburg: B. Elers, 1672
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Print album compiled from 21 prints cut from the work of Johannes Buno of 1672, glued onto double-folded sheets of paper. Some prints are loose. On the last pages a handwritten schedule in Latin. The work gives a historical overview of the history of the world in millennia and centuries, according to mnemotechnics or the art of memory.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineHistorische Bilder/ Darinnen Idea Historiae Universalis : Eine kurtze Summarische Abbildung Der fürnehmsten Geist- und Weltlichen Geschichte durch die vier Monarchien ..., door Johannes Buno, Lüneburg. 1667 - 1672. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
