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I for one think Silliness has become an underrated trait today
bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.asp… @BLMedieval
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This folio has had a hard life: ravaging Divs and old repairs. Wrinkles formed during couching visible in transmitted light.
@CBL_Dublin Per 256.1, Tahmuras defeats the divs, Shahnama, poss. Qazvin, Iran, c.1570-80.
#chesterbeatty #handmadepaper #BlueMonday #MeetingInIsfahan
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Well, that’s the first full work week of 2022 all tied up! 📚
@CBL_Dublin Ar 5570, The Golden Treasure of Prayers for the Prophet, 19th century, west Africa
#IslamicManuscripts #chesterbeatty #JummahMubarak
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Miniature Qur’an binding📚
#RoseBeersBooks #MiniatureBinding #octagonal #TinyTuesday @MENALibAHS @nilbaydar2 @eckropf – at Dublin City, Ireland
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These fascinating, cryptic symbols known as 'Ketav malakhim' (Angelic alphabet) are often found in kabbalistic manuscripts as attested by the enclosed images #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital
bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDispla…
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klofi = the groove (hurðar-klofi) in which the door moves up and down instend of moving on hinges; hence the phrases, lúka upp hurðu, or lúka aptr hurð á miðjan klofa, to open or shut the door to the middle of the groove, i.e. shut it half way
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Appreciation post for everyone who plays Cleric.
ALT A War Priest from the upcoming Monsters of the Multiverse book in the Rules Expansion Gift Set.
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Greek gold finger-ring, 450 BCE-425 BCE; the engraved design depicts a woman sitting on a crescent-shaped feature with her face turned upwards towards the sky - possibly an image of Selene, the moon goddess @britishmuseum britishmuseum.org/collection…
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A bit chewy but full of flavour!
BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.65v @BLMedieval
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Sorting out a thing on naturalism and I have been looking at the Carrara Herbal of 1390-1400 and its is bafflingly anachronistic - I mean it isn't (that's just my perception of it) but 1390-1400...?!
Carrara Herbal, London, British Library, Egerton 2020 gouache on vellum, Padua
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Twitter, beware.
ALT Title page of a book, reading: The Compleat Troller, or, the Art of Trolling … by a Lover of the Sport, London, printed by T James for Thomas Helden at the Angel in Little Britain, 1682.
I agree with @Ayatto This looks like Aramaic, the script used in Chaldean Catholic liturgy.
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Our friends at @columbialib have blogged about a papyrus letter split between our collections 🙌
Find out more about this digital reunion on their blog: blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/…
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THE BORDER FRAME doesn't look like interlace at first, but no matter how decorated the strands may be, they weave under and over one another, and so qualify as yet another of the billion-or-so creative variations on the theme. There are simpler knotworks with a similar structure.
This is one of our most spectacular bindings. A composite MS and printed book copy of the Reformation work Einfältiges Bedenken, the volume was bound for the library of King Henry VIII! (@NewCollegeOx, MS 136)
Discover more about its amazing history 👇
tinyurl.com/2dsdemkw
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Jain cosmological diagrams of the universe: the two-and-a-half continents, the universe in the shape of a human, and the seven levels of Hell; from Gujarat, Western India, 1613; gum tempera, ink, and gold on cloth @ClevelandArt clevelandart.org/art/2018.20…
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On se lance dans la #MuseumWeek2021 par une petite mise en abyme, là où tout a commencé pour nous sur #Twitter en 2018 !
#ilEtaitUneFoisMW #LundiMotivation #Remember