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Creation depicted at the end of L'image du monde as eight concentric circles with the innermost containing fish & a central roundel with a man with a spade between trees.
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Cambridge University Library; MS Gg.1.1; 14th century; England; f.390r @theULSpecColl
Happy St Bartholomew's day
(& yes he's being flayed!)😳
Royal 20 D VI; Wauchier de Denain, Lives of the Saints; France (Paris); 13th century;
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Marvels of the world: Alexander consulting an astronomer about the birth of a half-human, half-beast child.
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Royal 19 D I; c.1340; France, Central (Paris); f.40v @BLMedieval
An armed knight of Prato on horseback with a very expressive horse!
Royal MS 6 E IX; c 1335; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia : Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou; Italy (Tuscany);
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Lions, lions, lions, lions but not St Jerome's!
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MS Kennicott 1; 1476 CE; Spain; f.64r, @BDLSS
Oriental 2737; Spain; c. 1300; f.35v @BLMedieval
BnF MS Latin 10525; 13th century; f.56r @GallicaBnF
Add MS 11639; 1277-1324; f.520r @BLMedieval
The sinful pleasure of eating pies!
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Arundel MS 91; 12th century; Passionale, 21 September-9 November; Canterbury; f.190r @BLMedieval
Always good to revisit the classics & old friends!
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1; ff.80r, 82r @BLMedieval
Circles before my eyes on #SundayMorning !
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MS. Kennicott 1; 1476CE; La Coruña, Spain; ff.122r, 122v, 317v, 318r @BDLSS #KennicottBible
Joseph Ibn Hayyim has created an angry spotty dragon to mark Shlach (שְׁלַח-לְךָ), this week's parsha in which men are sent to spy out the the land of Canaan.
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MS. Kennicott 1; 1476CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.84v @BDLSS #KennicottBible
Two musicians, a juggler, & a man with bells representing musical modes.
Harley 4951; Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse; France, S. (Toulouse); last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century; ff.295v, 297v, 298v, 299v @BLMedieval