Album Amicorum of Janus Dousa

The Dutch Baroque and the art of the botanical still life: Franciscus de Geest's 201 impressively naturalistic and detailed paintings of the most beautiful exotic and native plants

A pioneering cornerstone of empirical zoology: Leonhard Baldner's fascinatingly illustrated animal book, based exclusively on his own observations, as testimony to a life dedicated to the careful study of nature

Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens, Rembrandt and others: a selection of captivating drawings created by the great masters from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence between the mid-15th and 18th centuries

Love and friendship in the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: four magnificent and artistic miniature pages on the two fundamental questions of mankind

Genealogy, register of coats of arms and album amicorum or “friendship book” in one: artfully decorated princely copperplate engravings full of authentic insights into everyday life in Germany at the turn of the 17th century

More than the casual friendship book of a traveling student: an impressive collection of written contributions and small works of art by scholars, poets and artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Joost van den Vondel