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WIP of some leaves done in gouache!! this is eventually gonna be a mock book cover of one of my manuscripts when it’s all done 🥰🌿

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2020-04-08

Okay...after trying our hands at paintings, my son and I decided to make our first attempt at a manuscript re-creation! Here he is as St. Nicholas from the fabulous Claricia Psalter (W.26), created in Germany ca. 1200.

Here's a link to the original: https://t.co/qcWjqda5VC

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2020-04-05

Part of manuscript

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2020-04-04

Just received these stunning figures of African painted dog (#Lycaon pictus) forelimb muscles for our manuscript, beautifully illustrated by

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2020-04-04

Next newly digitized manuscript expanded group of digitized manuscripts (National Library of the Czech Republic). This V A 9 with Summa by Bartholomaeo de Sancto Concordio was written 1398 in Lusatia. BTW, more as half of our medieval manuscripts is accessible in Manuscriptorium.

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2020-04-03

Day 3 of is
Join us for a wander in Drumlanrig Flower Garden, with this gorgeous manuscript plan of 1848.
https://t.co/be3zwFReu7

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2020-04-03

This 16th-century Greek manuscript features a wide range of animal illustrations. Which one is your favourite?

https://t.co/AA9ljTQyyw (Burney MS 97)

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2020-04-02

Another pea plant, pisello salvatico, from the sixteenth-century Add MS 22333, containing paintings of flora of the Roman States, by botanist Gherardo Cibo.

You can browse the whole digitized manuscript here: https://t.co/fdA3fv2j8X

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2020-04-01

I want to play too!

Here's Percy from my new unnamed manuscript ❤️

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2020-03-31

Passover is coming! The British Library holds some of the most beautiful illustrated Haggadot. In the next 10 days, we'll post images from these manuscripts, and have a plague quiz: guess which plague is shown in the images!

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2020-03-30

Part of manuscript

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2020-03-27

Who knows where is stored digitized version of this manuscript?
"The Chronicles of Gilles Li Muisis" (1272-1352),
abbot of the monastery of St. Martin of the Righteous.
Bibliotheque royale de Belgique, MS 13076-77

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2020-03-25

'From ancient art to modern manuscripts, Harvard digital collections provides free, public access to over 6 million objects.’ https://t.co/QmsDgVFslH

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2020-03-22

Social distancing.
Konrad Kyeser, Bellifortis

Illustrated by Clauss Pflieger (?)
Similar images are to be found in other manuscripts of Kyeser’s Bellifortis, e.g. Wien, ÖNB Cod. 3068, fol. 76v

Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, MS Thott.290.2º, f. 44r
1459

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2020-03-22

this was a fun little project to work on :) ive been enamored by the silly creatures in illuminated manuscripts since i discovered them a few years ago. these are available as stickers on my etsy! https://t.co/95gOyo87R6

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2020-03-21

Manuscripts & Special Collections has now CLOSED.

We don't know when we'll be able to reopen, but until then, we'll leave you with this very appropriate image from our collections.

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2020-03-21

my illuminated manuscript creature stickers are now on etsy! :D https://t.co/vby0DQHwgu

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2020-03-20