BibliOdyssey is displaying thirteen interesting engravings of late 16th century university life.

The trouble with the modern education system is that there is far too little attention paid to jousting and quarterstaff combat.

Agreed.  And I’m sure that somewhere in that set, you can see the varsity Footballe Teame giving a monster codpiece-wedgie to some poor freshman in tights.

(via Andre Torrez)

Manuscript 416 at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is an amazing 13th/14th century example of the Speculum theologie genre - illustrations and diagrams of moral and theological subjects used by medieval educators.  Beinecke’s online exhibit of the manuscript features translations and essays about each of the diagrams.

All of the diagrams are beautiful, but my favorite is the Tower of Wisdom.

Gothic illuminated sketchbook, from 1494.  Makes your Moleskine doodlings look rather simple, no?

(via BibliOdyssey)

Great local billboard campaign for the Little Theatres - an arthouse film complex in my city.  Wish the smaller images were clickable into larger versions.