Hand-painted illustration from the autograph album of Johann Jakob Frisch
1624
- Title
- Hand-painted illustration from the autograph album of Johann Jakob Frisch
- Collection
- Caltech Photographs
- Series
- Rare Book Photographs
- Dates
- 1624
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- Frisch was a nephew of Johannes Kepler. The album was kept by Frisch while a law student at the University of Tubingen (from 1624 to 1631), where Kepler himself also had studied. Autograph entries are typicaly in Latin, and range from a few lines of verse or prose to elaborate miniature illustrations, comic and serious. Kepler’s autograph is included in the book within a Latin inscription dated 1625.