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This week, we’re showcasing one of our manuscripts: MS 132, a mid-15thC Italian bestiary. This treatise features watercolour illustrations of animals, such as this https://t.co/GTZ8YNKARA

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2019-08-06

John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child

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2019-08-05

Birds 🦉🦜🦅 versus bees 🐝🐝🐝

Which our your favourites? Here's a round-up of some of the best images from manuscripts.

https://t.co/YGPh0QOlop

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2019-08-05

The birds and the bees - Medieval manuscripts blog https://t.co/V4fBpKaKTK

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2019-08-05

From the same manuscript:

an osprey (you knew that, didn't you?)

Royal MS 13 B VIII, f. 9r
https://t.co/FPLFihyr63

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2019-08-03

Celebrate with James Bolton's six-volume manuscript featuring 233 unpublished watercolor drawings of and descriptions of where each was found growing around Halifax, England. Freely available in via ➡️ https://t.co/xw4jloB4Ym 🍄

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2019-08-03

Happy birthday! Captain Roger Atwood of the airship Longbow is one of the MCs of our manuscript. It takes place in 1890, so he would be 154 today. Looking good!
Fun fact: Roger's favorite food is pumpkin soup with brown bread.

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2019-08-01

In this blogpost, writes about manuscripts relating to the life and legacy of St Patrick
https://t.co/Z4fD4TqAUo

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2019-08-01

Culture vultures (well, they're both found in medieval manuscripts, how much more 'cultural' can you get?!)

Harley MS 3244, f. 51r
Sloane MS 3544, f. 23r

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2019-08-01

It's newly digitized manuscript day on the website! Five new medieval manuscripts online, featuring historiated initials, Anglo-Saxon minuscule, and two volumes of Pauline epistles spanning 400 years. https://t.co/w7S6QNaRFU

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2019-07-31

+ Watercolors by Harriet Godhue Williams in a manuscript recording the plants in her husband, Stephen W. Williams', Herbarium. In thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/JLGzVhadRA

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2019-07-30

A new header for week: a vision of St Patrick in Purgatory: https://t.co/Z4fD4TqAUo

And a scribe's attempt at copying letters into a manuscript: https://t.co/Ibp3nG5k3v

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2019-07-29

This is a "preliminary mock-up of the box" specially made for this Deluxe Manuscript Edition of Princess of Mars. https://t.co/EQlD3POXCK

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2019-07-28

Why isn't anyone snapping up your Talking Beet picture book manuscript? https://t.co/LM0GxnlmtS from blog and Natascha Biebow.

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2019-07-26

One of the Bodleian's manuscripts, MS. Laud Misc. 96, contains half a dozen different bastarda hands. These images show the range of forms this script can take--and the challenge for palaeographers. https://t.co/UDZieNn0Rk

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2019-07-23

'Humbugging, or Raising the Devil' by Thomas Rowlandson (1800), from .

Cunning-folk were the sort of wizards who knew how to put on a good show. Arcane objects filled their consulting rooms: skulls, strange animals, herbs, & mysterious manuscripts, as shown here.

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2019-07-22

I have no idea what their name would be but-
( Dr. Spritze x Rigaudon )
I didn't know what cutie mark to do so just chucked some manuscript on there

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2019-07-16