Lavishly

When Kon­rad von Megen­berg pub­lished his Buch der Natur within the mid-four­teenth cen­tu­ry, he gained the dis­tinc­tion of hav­ing assem­bled the very first nat­ur­al his­to­ry in Ger­man. Greater than half a mil­len­ni­um lat­er, the ebook nonetheless fas­ci­nates — not least for its depic­tions of cats, pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured right here on Open Cul­ture. Even the works…