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Thoughts of the brazen serpent!
@BL_HebrewMSS
Add MS 11639; 1277-1324; 'The Northern French Miscellany';
f.742v @BLMedieval
I’m having a very slow day today - how about you?
Common garden snails from George Shaw’s ‘Naturalists miscellany’ with #SciArt by Frederick Polydore Nodder (1790)
#RareBooks #illustration #library #garden #SnailsPace #TakingItEasy
Two depictions of Samson slaying the lion!
#HebrewProject
Or 2737; 1275-1324, Haggadah for Passover according to the Spanish rite (the 'Hispano-Moresque Haggadah'); Spain; f.35v
Add MS 11639; 1277-1324; 'The Northern French Miscellany;
f.520r @BL_HebrewMSS @BLMedieval
Zho's lunar journey (2)
about the life of a lonely cosmonaut at an abandoned lunar station. For the literary miscellany "Zapovednik skazok"
#space, #astronaut, #taikonaut, #moon, #exploration, #lunar #station, #rover, #sciencefiction, #CF, #illustration
I can finally show of Talenta Halflings on flying dinosaurs… one of the illustrations for I had the honour of making for #MorgraveMiscellany by @RutyWoot and @HellcowKeith
It’s available on the @dms_guild
https://t.co/XoNRpAid9q
#dnd5e #eberron, #Morgrave
“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
- H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany.
Some close-ups from our Christmas Miscellany exhibition: @TypeAndForme at the Grantham Museum. Here: Charles Dickens & Joseph Banks.
Gorgeous #handcoloured #copperplate #engraving of a Roseate Spoonbill from George Shaw’s ‘The Naturalist’s Miscellany’, with #SciArt #illustration by FP. Nodder
#Library #RareBooks #Ornithology #Birds #Spoonbill #Pink #Book #OldBooks #Librarian #NaturalHistory #Science
The "Parkinsonian Paradise-Bird" (from an illustration by Sydenham Edwards in George Shaw's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" 1803) #Lyrebird via @museumvictoria @BioDivLibrary @atlaslivingaust https://t.co/MTjGXgD9O4
The Sun and the Moon in their chariots, astronomical miscellany, Canterbury c. 1050 (BL, Cotton Tiberius B V/1, fol. 47r)
Red-Headed Lovebird (Agapornis pullarius). #SciArt by Frederick Polydore Nodder for George Shaw, Naturalist's Miscellany, Vol. 1 (1789-1813). Contributed to #BHLib by @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/NBa3R4YZhk #birds #birbs
Schizodactylus monstrosus for @insectweek #NIW2018! This large #cricket is found in #Asia. #SciArt by Richard Polydore Nodder for George Shaw's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" (1789-1813), V.18. Contributed to #BHLib by @museumsvictoria @bhl_au: https://t.co/8ilixpUe54
Female Surinam Toads (Pipa pipa) grow skin over fertilized eggs pressed onto their backs by the males. Once the toadlets have developed, they pop out of her back. #SciArt from Naturalist's Miscellany (1789-1813), Vol. 1. Via @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/vX9JRVO4BQ
Barnacles are filter-feeding crustaceans. #SciArt of rabbit-ear barnacle (Conchoderma auritum) - a type of goose barnacle - by Richard Polydore Nodder for Shaw's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" (1789-1813) v. 16. In #BHLib via @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/cXmZfCIoxu
Miscellany from the last few days, one telegram sticker one headshot. For @HobieArts and @Tora_Oni
Tasar Silkworm (Antheraea paphia). #SciArt by Richard Polydore Nodder for George Shaw, Naturalist's Miscellany (1789-1813), Vol. 16. Contributed to #BHLib by @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/BRon0Ts52X