4 items tagged #picture book

The first six letters of the Hebrew alphabet as a picture book, each drawn as its oldest known sign, with what it pictured, the number it carries, and what rabbis and kabbalists read into it.

Euripides' lost Auge as a picture book, built only from the scraps that survive: quoted lines, single words in old dictionaries, and what other writers said about the play.

The Old English epic as a picture book, a few dozen lines to a page, in Francis B. Gummere's 1910 verse translation with the original alongside.

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter as a picture book, one passage to a page, in Hugh G. Evelyn-White's 1914 translation.