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NEW POST: Applications welcomed for 18 month post as
Digital Content Exhibition Curator for our forthcoming Alexander the Great exhibition. Salary £32,000 per annum. Details at https://t.co/TkKUC0M0Be
This beautiful miniatures showing St George and the dragon is from an Armenian prayer scroll
https://t.co/vLKW0As5W9
Rama’s servant listens to the dhobi quarrelling with his wife. From the Razmnama, the Persian translation of the #Mahabharata, dated 1598, artist Da'ud. See https://t.co/pEdp1iNQgy #MughalIndia #ManuscriptMonday
Garden of Eden in al-Naysaburi’s ‘Stories of the Prophets’, Iran, 16th century. Currently on view in #EpicIran https://t.co/TTmvm3p3RE
#DiscoveringSacredTexts #BLPerMss #ManuscriptMonday
2016 Delhi Exhibition catalogue "Everlasting Flame: #Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" long-time unavailable but now online at https://t.co/jjL4O2mwuE thanks to @NMnewdelhi
Yakkha and Yakkhini, male and female nature spirits, can be found in all shapes and colours in Thai divination manuscripts (Phrommachat) where they are depicted as guardians for people born under a certain sign of the Thai zodiac. https://t.co/edekkMLknE
In her latest post @BLMalay writes about the iconography of verse markers in #Quran manuscripts from Southeast Asia, a subject which has up to now been comparatively neglected https://t.co/4SNqFHp9Yb
May 19 was a historic day in the history of celebrating the contribution of British #Zoroastrians with the unveiling of a English Heritage blue plaque in memory of Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia. For more see post by @RAS_Soc: https://t.co/UI7UmvRFNM
For some #SaturdayMorning fun, try this #Jigsaw part of a 1578 sea chart by the Italian cartographer Joan Martines
https://t.co/eNJo4ub8xw
Digitised as part of the Bollinger Singapore digitisation project
https://t.co/Jqad4RUJOj @BLMaps @BLMalay #BLPuzzles
#MaundyThursday #Easter #Easter2021 Explore this #Syriac Gospel Lectionary from c. 1216-20 with images of the Last Supper, the kiss of Judas, and the Crucifixion. Add MS 7170. https://t.co/rtOzKG84Jh