*Medieval pre-Columbian drug-snorting paraphernalia from a cave in the South American desert is even trippier-looking than I expected. This underground wizard was snorting five...
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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita, Samarkand ca. 1430-1440
BnF, Arabe 5036, fol. 23r
A cartoon by Drew Dernavich, from 2011.
“Martin Schongauer, Versuchung des heiligen Antonius. Kupferstich” in Wilhelm Michel’s Das Teuflische und Groteske in der Kunst [The Diabolical and Grotesque in Art], 1919.