#Book of Treasures

[cuties-in-codices]

medieval stores (& personified virtues)

from a copy of the encyclopedic "trésor" by brunetto latini, illuminated by the "master of the geneva latini", rouen, c. 1450-80

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r

#15th century #brunetto latini #trésor #Book of Treasures #markets #medieval markets #medieval professions #medieval towns #virtues #encyclopedias #master of the geneva latini #Meister der Genfer Latini #medieval art #manuscript illumination

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

#black sails #bs #mine #edit #comp #scene #compilation #tv show #show #book #character #treasure island #pirate #james flint #charles vane #john silver #hale gates #eleanor guthrie #max bs #anne bonny #jack rackham #idelle

[thebeautifulbook]

FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #shaped book #fleur de lis #book of hours #latin language #treasure book #book design #book binding #old books

[illustratus]

Cover for Dämonenkiller #132 - Der Ritter vom schwarzen Kreuz

by Vincente Segrelles

#vincente segrelles #art #knight #knights #ghost #ghosts #axe #treasure #crown #castle #medieval #middle ages #horror #supernatural #haunted #haunting #treasure hunter #demon #phantom #phantoms #ghoul #comics #comic books #comic book #europe #european #magazine #novels #novel #dämonenkiller

[whatlieswithintheorchard]

CHECK OUT THIS REALLY COOL BOOK ABOUT AFRICAN-JEWISH COOKING!!

Michael Twitty, the James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed “The Cooking Gene”,explores the cultural crossroads of ✡️Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food🥘.

To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them.

The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations.

“Koshersoul” includes 48-50 recipes.

#jewish #jewish resources #jumblr #jewish tumblr #gay jew #jewish lgbtq+ #lgbtq+ #food #history #recipes #book #i got a chance to see him in person and he is so sweet and so amazing #the recipes are also really good #but the real treasure is the history the book tells

[literatureaesthetic]

mini haul ✨️ love when book covers conveniently end up matching. i've been wanting to read 'de profundis' for literal years, i've just never encountered this specific edition in a store before (i'm vain, and i need the pretty edition of a book always)

also, for music lovers, i got my hands on the new chelsea wolfe album!! obsessed doesn't cover it.

#i love sharing my hauls with you all lmao #it's like showing my little hoard (you guys) all my treasures💀 #haul #book haul #de profundis #oscar wilde #giovanni's room #james baldwin #literature aesthetics #books #book #bookish #bookblr #bookworm #bookstagram #dark academia #booklover #books and libraries #study #study space #study hard #studying #study motivation #studyblr #study blog #dark acadamia aesthetic #black #penguin #classics #chelsea wolfe

[wheatormeat]

we're really returning to the mid 2000s with the angel x demon fics

#though considering book omens was published in 1990 I guess you can say it kinda sparked the obsession with angel x demon deviantart days #inspired by that cat and dog from treasure planet that also fit together like a puzzle piece #good omens #gomens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #why do they have so many names #aziracrow #my art #digital art #doodle #fanart

[disneyboot]

#disney #books #snow white and the seven dwarfs #pinocchio #cinderella #sleeping beauty #the sword in the stone #the jungle book #robin hood #the many adventures of winnie the pooh #thumbelina #treasure planet #chicken little #enchanted #the princess and the frog

[frenzyarts]

When I was 13-14 I had just come to terms with the fact that I was attracted to women, but I was very closeted and so I would try to “cleverly” hide my true feelings in my drawings. I really though writing “cat suits are never not not not going to never not be not not hot” would somehow throw people off the trail of what I was trying to say. Same with writing “girls with guns,” (and then, in tiny letters) “are hot” would keep people from realizing I’m a homo. Truly one of my baby gay moments of all time

#going through old notebooks and found these treasures #sketch book #idk if I even want to tag this as my art lol it’s ancient #lesbian #frenzy post

[pigdemonart]

Always thinking about them (￣▽￣)

Wips and doodles of the favs. I have many, so I decided to share!!

#submas #nimbasa trio #runways and railways #organizing the submas book finally and i find treasures in between the layers bwaaahh #pokemon bw #pokemon black and white #doodles #my art

[mytardisisparked]

Look, all I’m saying is that they really just don’t make movies like National Treasure anymore. Like this movie is about two dudes in a van who beat a team of highly trained criminals to stealing a valuable document from a high-security museum, by sheer accident get an antiques expert to come along with them to keep the document safe, get involved in several major chase scenes, escape the FBI twice, find a massive treasure, get someone else arrested for their crimes, and then give the treasure back to museums before yeeting out to do it all over again in the sequel. No one was doing it like them. And the thing is, by all accounts, this plot is ridiculous and the dialogue is ridiculous but it works unbelievably well because the writers and actors committed to the bit. This movie is campy and absurd and it’s also one of the most fun and quotable movies of my early childhood because the creators embraced the camp and did it with such a sincerity that it’s a goshdarn delight to watch. Top all of that off with a soundtrack that went WAY harder than it really needed to, excellent atmosphere throughout the whole film, and visuals that were darn near perfect and National Treasure becomes a classic. I’ve been chasing the high I got the first time I watched it my whole life. What a movie.

#I'm super normal about National Treasure #when I was a kid I loved it so much that I memorized the whole first movie and most of the second and I can still quote most of it today #its a comfort movie but in the way that I get an adrenaline rush every time I watch it #And like Book of Secrets was pretty darn good too #and so far I don't mind the TV series it's not bad #but that first movie #cinema peaked for me then I'm not remotely kidding #I have loved no movie as much as National Treasure #National Treasure #National Treasure Book of Secrets #Ben Gates #Riley Poole #Abigail Chase

[skipppppy]

I haven’t really been vocal about it on here but I cannot take this any longer. I need everyone on this site to read at least one Poirot novel so they can sympathise with what the fuck I’m going through here. I have been utterly enraptured by this little Belgian man. I need you all to understand that this guy is a fucking freak in a way that is like heroin to me. I cannot stop. Maybe my favourite autistic representation of all time. His transmasc swag broke the fucking charts. His sauce is out of this world. His smoke is tougher than diamonds. He is a hater. He throws vegetables at people. I need him carnally

#he is the direct inspiration for benoit blanc. if you enjoyed knives out you are sitting on a treasure trove of a man I PROMISE #i need to watch the david suchet show but i’ve only read like 2 and a half books so far

[kuzuyamii]

any play, performance, or game is a cage because it's played by the rules written by someone else or whatever black sails is about.

#black sails #bs #edit #mine #meta #tv show #show #book #treasure island #james flint #john silver #long john silver #miranda barlow #max bs #character

[thebeautifulbook]

KING FRANÇOIS I BOOK OF HOURS (1578)

A dazzling masterpiece of the French Renaissance.

This small prayer book is bound in enamelled gold and gemstones. It was purchased in 1538 by King Francis I of France as a gift for his niece. The gems consist of carnelian (two intaglios and eight cameos), rubies (27 polished pieces), turquoise (24 cabochons) and rhodolite (one faceted stone in the book’s clasp that has been described as tourmaline since 1942). Most of the rubies were mined from the Mogok area of Burma (now Myanmar). Based on historical considerations, the turquoise could have originated from Persia or possibly Uzbekistan, and the carnelian from either India or Saxony. The faceted rhodolite from India or Sri Lanka, was most likely added to the clasp between 1842 and 1884. [view large]

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #book of hours #treasure binding #book binding #book design #french #jeweled #illuminated manuscript #illuminated

[s10127470]

My Ideal Revival of the Disney Heroes Franchise

What you’re looking at is the official logo for a now defunct franchise known as Disney Heroes.

Disney Heroes was basically meant to serve as the sister…..or more appropriately, the brother franchise of the Disney Princesses, with the focus being placed on the male heroes of the Disney pantheon.

The franchise initially started back in 1999, but under the name of Disney Adventurers. Not only that, but the line-up was rather small, consisting of the titular protagonists of Hercules, Aladdin, Peter Pan, and their most recent film at the time, Tarzan.

The franchise mainly existed through toys, with some notable merchandising besides that here and there.

The franchise remained this way until about 2003, when it got a notable revamp.

The franchise would get its current name and it would expand the roster quite a bit. The new members included Merlin and Arthur from The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty, and Li Shang from Mulan.

I also think Simba from The Lion King was a part of the roster as well, I think I remember seeing him on a backpack done for the franchise.

But in 2005, the Disney Heroes franchise had a another revamp…this one notably different from the previous ones.

Although the franchise mainly existed through toys and play-sets that more or less stayed faithful to their respective films, these however…..

Your eyes are not deceiving you….these were actual action figures created and designed by Disney for the Disney Heroes franchise…..and I couldn’t be anymore happier.

Hercules looks like an ancient Greek warrior with the golden armor, plus he’s carrying a big xiphos and a golden shield with the face of a lion.

Peter Pan is now sporting some tan gloves, boots, and ever a mask, carrying a bow and quiver of arrows alongside his trusty dagger.

And Captain Hook has a more swashbuckling look, and his rapier has been replaced with a big ass cutlass!

Prince Phillip and Maleficent were also apart of this line-up of action figures as well.

Phillip had a more knight-like appearance, even having a helmet with a golden falcon on top.

And Maleficent…well, she was in her dragon form.

Sadly, only five action figures were made in this style….

And it’s a shame, given that there were plans to revamp the franchise with a more action-oriented style.

These designs by Disney animator Ruben Procopio for planned future figures for the franchise really highlight this…

Aladdin was gonna look like an Arabian Knight, complete with a dagger and a huge ass scimitar that would make Cloud Strife impressed.

Tarzan was gonna go for a Conan the Barbarian-esque look, complete with a headband, a vest, a tooth necklace, boots, and even a quiver filled with spears, knives, and arrows.

And as you could see, they were even gonna introduce The Beast from Beauty and the Beast as a new member of a roster, with the appearance of a warrior prince and a mace as his weapon.

Unfortunately, these figures never came to be....

Although Disney Heroes franchise was doing decently fine, it was nowhere near the level of success of the Disney Princesses.

As a result of that, Disney slowly but surely phased out the franchise over the next three years.

By 2008, the Disney Heroes franchise silently ended, only merchandising through coloring books and their only new addition since 2003 being....of all characters....Milo Thatch from Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

So yeah....that's pretty much the story of the Disney Heroes franchise.

It's honestly a shame because I could totally see this franchise being pretty successful today.

And given the rise of nostalgia and crossovers in media over the last decade, I could see this being an absolute goldmine for all parties involved.

And today, I'm gonna share on how I think a revival of the Disney Heroes franchise should play out.

.It would aim more towards a older audience, mostly teenagers, similar to the Disney Villains franchise. It wouldn't really focus all that much on toys like the Disney Princesses, though there would be some figurines here and there, instead focusing on media that's more accessible with a older crowd like novels, comic books, video games, and even animation.

.Unlike it's previous iteration, and to that extension the Disney Princesses, it would be more gender-neutral, featuring male and female representatives of most of the represented films as members of the roster.

.Also unlike the Princesses, this franchise has its own backstory. Various Disney villains have joined forces in other to further their respective goals. In retaliation, a group of various Disney heroes, led by Merlin, have united to fight against the villainous alliance and protect their respective realms. I know it's a pretty simple premise, but I think it's the perfect that way.

.The franchise will have a major focus on action and adventure....which for a franchise like this, should be expected.

.Many of the characters will be receiving redesigns in the veins of the ones done for the franchise back in 2005, which give off a fantasy warrior, almost Dungeons n' Dragons vibe. While these wouldn't be to the extent as say, Disney Mirrorverse, they would clearly by different from the characters' usual attire and makes them come off as more like warriors ready for adventure and battle.

.The series will essentially expand on the worlds of the films and bring in elements from their original source materials, official continuations like the TV shows, and even the cultures they represent.

Okay, now that we got the major elements out of the way, I'm gonna briefly share who would be apart of the roster for this new franchise, and list them in chronological order of movie release.

.Alice

.Peter Pan

.Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip

.Merlin and Arthur

.Mowgli

.Robin Hood

.Ariel and Eric

.Belle and Beast

.Aladdin and Jasmine

.Simba

.Pocahontas and John Smith

.Quasimodo

.Hercules and Megara

.Fa Mulan and Li Shang

.Tarzan and Jane Porter

.Milo Thatch and Kida Nedakh

.Jim Hawkins

.Tiana and Naveen

.Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert

.Merida

.Anna and Elsa

.Moana and Maui

Just imagine.....seeing this iconic heroes going on various adventures, from the hottest deserts to the deepest jungles. Fighting against mythical monsters, thieves, wild beasts, villainous knights, deadly invaders, mysterious spirits and swashbuckling pirates!

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm planning to go more in-depth on this idea, fleshing out the characters and their worlds.

If you have any ideas for this franchise, let me know.

#disney heroes #disney franchise #disney idea #alice in wonderland #peter pan #sleeping beauty #the sword in the stone #the jungle book #robin hood #the little mermaid #beauty and the beast #aladdin #the lion king #pocahontas #the hunchback of notre dame #hercules #mulan #tarzan #atlantis the lost empire #treasure planet #tangled #brave #frozen #Moana

[sinusoidaldisfunction]

Blister. Twisted Sister.

#wings of fire #wof #wof fanart #wings of fire fanart #wof blister #dysfunction's designs #i think she was my favorite queen when i was a kid first reading the books #nowadays Burn is my favorite character but Blaze is my favorite to draw #anyways this was my most complex design yet. usually i get it down in one sketch and come up with colors as i go #this one had two sketches and two different color palettes. that i then fucked around with in the color editor #she seems a little busy but i think it's okay for a villain to have a more complex design. #also headcanoning that the sandwing monarchy has nightwing blood from all the way back around darkstalker times #the sandwings didn't steal the treasure. some rich prince sold them out lol