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Don't mess with Virgin Mary! 💪
Yates Thompson 13; 'The Taymouth Hours'; 14th century;
f.155v @BLMedieval
"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
The death of Vortigern; Uther Pendragon talking with Merlin;
King Arthur; and Edward the Confessor
Royal 20 A II; England, N.; c.1307-c.1327; ff.3r, 3v, 4r, 5r
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Thoughts of the brazen serpent!
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Add MS 11639; 1277-1324; 'The Northern French Miscellany';
f.742v @BLMedieval
What a splendid Jacob's ladder with which to start the day!
#WednesdayMotivation
Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; f.43v
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Troilus and Cressida (Brescida) embracing & riding with Diomedes.
Additional 15477; Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Italy, N. (Venice); 2nd half of the 14th century; f.35v
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Avicenna
Additional 8785; Bartholomaeus Anglicus; De Proprietatibus Rerum; Italy, N. (Mantua); before 1309; f.39r @BLMedieval
Human ear complaining to Nature that she has not given him such protection as the eye has with the eyebrows. These days Nature has more cause to complain about humans!
Egerton 1121; Ulrich von Pottenstein, Spiegel der Weisheit; Austria, W. (Salzburg); c.1430; f.38r @BLMedieval