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Bijoux Coloring Book #2
From Gems Press
Paperback
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Welcome to Grunty Animals to Color Volume One: A Coloring Book of 36 Classic Illustrations Inspired by Creatures from Der Naturen Bloeme (The Flower of Nature), a Manuscript Illuminated Circa 1350, Text By Jacob van Maerlant Circa 1270 After Earlier Works.
Around 1270, the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant set out to describe everything nature had to offer, in more than 16,500 lines of verse. He called it Der Naturen Bloeme — The Flower of Nature — and drew it largely from Thomas of Cantimpré’s Latin encyclopedia Liber de natura rerum. Maerlant wrote, in Dutch, thirteen books covering everything from strange peoples and four-legged beasts to birds, fish, snakes, trees, herbs, and gemstones.
The 36 illustrations that inspired this coloring book come from a manuscript copy made around 1350 in the Utrecht region, now held by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. Its unknown illuminator filled the margins with creatures both real and imagined, often rendered with the same matter-of-fact confidence.
You can find over 300 colored image files from Der Naturen Bloeme on
wikimedia.org.
We’ve also reproduced all 36 original illustrations in color on the cover of this book.
We’ve inserted “blank” pages between the drawings so you don’t have to worry about your markers bleeding through. But instead of leaving those pages truly blank, we’ve added mini-images of creatures from Grunty Animals Volume Two for your enjoyment.
