Annabel Gallopさんのイラストまとめ

This beautiful and striking marginal ornament marks the start of the 10th juz' in a Qur'an manuscript from Aceh in the @britishlibrary Or 16915 https://t.co/L3ZD0KgqLs

@MamounSakkal was inspired to recreate the knotted 'bahawa' from @RAS_Soc Raffles Malay 41:

Fig. 39. Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, @perpusnas1 A.352, f.9b, Arabic manuscript from Aceh, with a 7-looped double knotted ba in the word ‘bab’, marking a new section of the text.

Fig.42. Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, @perpusnas1 Ml.215, p.1, Hikayat Sang Boma, knotted ta marbuta in purple ink with foliate flourishes, in the first word ‘al-kisah’

Fig.40. British Library @britishlibrary ORB.30/457. Some examples of ta marbuta are double knotted, as in the title Hikayat Robinson Crusoe, in the lithographed journal Cermin Mata published by Benjamin Keasberry at the Singapore MissionPress in 1858.

Fig.29. Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, @perpusnas1 A.578, f.42a, elongated kaf in red in the word 'al-kalam' in a manuscript of Ajurumiyyah from Aceh.

For Valentine's day - a doodle of a flower with heart-shaped petals, from a Bugis collection of poetry, ca. 1800, @britishlibrary Add 12346 https://t.co/DECJuCqP5H

In my 1995 book 'Early views of Indonesia' I published the drawing of 'a prince from Gilolo', Halmahera, and the evidently related 1692 print, without knowing much of their interwoven history. Luckily Mariana de Campos Françozo did the research in 2017: https://t.co/dUtWnltBF3

Traditional Javanese calendrical manuscripts had stylized illustrations inspired by the wayang kulit shadow puppet theatre. But in 1814 Kyai Adipati Suradimanggala of Semarang presented a pawukon to Colin Mackenzie with illustrations in the European style https://t.co/BTClW55jAp

#WorldElephantDay more ex-elephants in the illustrated Javanese manuscript Serat Sela Rasa, @britishlibrary MSS Jav 28, now fully digitised https://t.co/oRuKxMqFK3