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Happy #LunarNewYear to all those celebrating!
CBL J 1157, The Arhat who Tamed a Tiger, Nishiyama Hoyen, 19th century, Japan.
#chesterbeatty #scrollpainting #YearOfTheTiger
The wardrobe of dreams for the courtyard wedding of Iskandar and Roshanak 🎊
@CBL_Dublin Per 270.66, Shahnama, 1066H/ 1655, Isfahan
#textileTuesday #MeetingInIsfahan #ChesterBeatty
Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay with a detail from a favourite painting 📚@CBL_Dublin Per 270.66, Iskandar marries Roshanak, painted by Mu ‘in Musavvir, Shahnama, Isfahan, 1066/ 1655 #IranianArt #IslamicArt #IslamicManuscripts #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021
@BodCons This is one of my favourites @BodCons it’s a #bookaboutbooks #booksinchildrensbooks Popular with book conservators and nephews alike https://t.co/38N458U9y2
@book_historia Pirate clamshell box: isn’t that a treasure chest? 📚
More patterns and textures from @duomosiena some of them decidedly familiar #renaissanceart #Islamicmanuscripts #carpetsinpaintings #piccolominilibrary #FridayThoughts
Details from Yogini with a Mynah bird in the Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah Album (@CBL_Dublin In 11A.31, c.1600) and is that Falkor in the margins? #ThursdayThoughts #luckdragon
Details from the binding of a Deccani Muntakhab-i #Shahnama from Sikakol (@CBL_Dublin In 23) for #ManuscriptMonday Conserved by #CBLconservation in 2010 for obvious reasons! #Deccanimanuscripts
Details of a beautiful Persian portrait to celebrate Nowruz! (@CBL_Dublin Per 260.7) Happy New Year to all those celebrating #CBLconservation #NowruzMobarak #SpringEquinox #Spring
This beautiful illustration of Mecca is taken from a 16th century manuscript @CBL_Dublin (CBL Per 249). Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating today #EidAlAdha #IslamicManuscripts @Islamic_MSS @IslamSSN #CBLconservation