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The celestial bodies, the elements, the soul, and the creation
of Adam.
@BLMedieval
BnF MS Latin 4895; Gothefridi Viterbiensis pantheon ; passim figurae; 1331; ff.14r, 15r, 16v, 23v @GallicaBnF
https://t.co/ngyGWNxnT2
Chariots of the Sun and Moon
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1; Scientific Miscellany; England;
c.1030-1060; f.47r @BLMedieval
@SisterWalburga Merry Christmas to you and all your community! 🎄
This is a Nativity Image from an Ethiopic Manuscript
BL Or. 481; Octateuch, Gospels, & Ecclesiastical Works; Ethiopia; 17th century; f. 100v @BLAsia_Africa
Friday 6th December is the Feast of St Nicholas. Here St Nicholas is depicted with the three officers of Constantine
BnF MS Latin 18303; The Life & Miracles of St Nicholas; 11th century; France; f.1v @GallicaBnF #PolonskyPre1200
The wrong place at the wrong time! 🦉
Royal 1 B XII; the 'Bible of William of Hales'; England, S. (Salisbury); 1254; f.153v @BLMedieval
Let's start the day with a dragon!
🐉🐉🐉🐉
MS. Kennicott 1; 1476CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.84v @BDLSS #KennicottBible
United in artistic form: Qur’ān & Hebrew Scriptures
Or 12523C; 13th century; Volume 39 of a Qur’ān, copied probably in Granada, Spain ; f.37r @BLAsia_Africa
MS. Kennicott 1; 1476CE; La Coruña, Spain; ff.122r @BDLSS #KennicottBible
"I had not thought death had undone so many."
BnF MS Italien 74; Dante Alighieri, Inferno, con l'Ottimo Commento; 15th century, c.1420-1430; Florence;
ff.1v, 2v, 3r, 9r @GallicaBnF
Wonder of the world: Alexander consults over the birth of a half-human, half-beast child.
Royal 19 D I; La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre; France, Central (Paris); c.1340; f.40v @BLMedieval