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Day 17 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.
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Day 11 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
A #reindeer & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?
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Day 6 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of #Birds' (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of #ornithology to feature hand-coloured plates. #rarebooks

Day 4 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
It was a frosty morning in #Durham this morning, so here's a lovely arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.
#rarebooks #winter

Oh look #FantasticBeasts amongst our #ArchiveAnimals! #Medieval pilgrims brought gifts to St Cuthbert’s Shrine in @durhamcathedral. An inventory dated 1383 lists a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw (narwhal tusk & ibex horn). Sadly lost during the Reformation. #ExploreYourArchive

#WorldEggDay fun fact. #Medieval pilgrims to St Cuthbert’s Shrine @durhamcathedral often brought gifts, including exotic objects. An inventory in our #archives dated 1383 tells us these included Griffin eggs! In reality they were probably ostrich eggs. #FactFriday #Folklore

A rare #medieval English wall painting - the figure of St Cuthbert in the Galilee Chapel of @durhamcathedral.
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