Title: Hand-painted illustration from the autograph album of Johann Jakob Frisch
Date: 1624
Original Format: photograph: negative
Description: 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.
Collection: Rare Books
Caltech Archives ID: RB-JF1624-2
