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Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden accompanied by a peacock and a dragon!
#AppreciateADragonDay
Add MS 18576; 16th century; Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ, History of the Prophets, by Ibráhím al-Naishápúri; f.11r @BLAsia_Africa

Decorated initial-word panel from the opening of Shemot (Exodus) with micrography from masoretic notes for
#MicrographyMonday
Add 19776; the 'Coburg Pentateuch'; Germany, Central (Coburg); 1390-1396; f.28v @BL_HebrewMSS
@BLAsia_Africa

The Epicurean philosopher Leonce (Leontion) trying to read philosophy while being embraced. History treated her harshly for daring to criticise Theophrastus.
Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in a French translation; France, N.; c.1440; f.74r @BLMedieval

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