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#Lions have held a uniquely important place in #Ethiopian art and #culture. They were the symbol of the Ethiopian state. A frequent motif in manuscripts #art. St Samuel of #Waldebba was known for taming lions. @britishlibrary Or 637 17th c @BLAsia_Africa #bestiary
JUST ARRIVED: A beautiful album of 70 ink & color illustrations of crabs, each with a note in manuscript relating each species' scientific name and where they can be found.
https://t.co/fqdWeTEhEf
Getting the manuscript - In August of 2016, I whipped up some Stegothesaurus concept art after my agent emailed me to say that an editor was interested in me illustrating their dinosaur manuscript. I initially tried a few different color palettes.
TOMORROW. See @TheJohnRylands lit-up by a dazzling array of colours and experience dance inspired by the ancient Indian illuminated manuscripts featured within its hugely popular current exhibition: The Alchemy of Colour: https://t.co/19tf5DYQss
The Arrival of Western Surgical Techniques in Japan. A richly illustrated manuscript influential in the history of medicine in Japan. @JAHBookseller Stand B10 #rarebookfairlondon from 24 - 26 May. Entry free https://t.co/KuAogx8rFn #Japan #manuscript #medical #science
Taking inspiration from the #metgala2018 theme Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, we've compiled our own Best Dressed list from the illuminated manuscripts in our Collections.
More demons.
I love how demons look fluffy in medieval illuminated manuscripts...
PKD at the moment of the glimmung breaking into his filing cabinet to steal his manuscripts in 1971
TOMORROW at 3:00—Hear from Christopher de Hamel, one of the world’s leading experts on medieval manuscripts, as he shares insight from his prize-winning book 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts.'
Free with museum admission; registration required: https://t.co/vcnM9A0NhW
Book of Durrow is a medieval illuminated manuscript gospel book in Insular art style, created 650-700 AD. #Otd Feast Day of Mark the Evangelist-here's beginning of Gospel of Mark & it's symbol, an eagle (unlike Book of Kells=John)! In @TCDResearchColl. @MagicalEurope #Ireland
Harvey's generous gift attracted other donations, including 11 Arabic and Persian medical manuscripts collected by lawyer and scholar John Selden and given in 1654. (These are MSTR50, MSTR12 and MSTR22.) #heritageMW #libraryhistory
Look what happened to THE DIAMOND AND THE BOY manuscript @HannahWHolt shared with her mentor @kjacobsedits at our 2015 conference! Congratulations Hannah! https://t.co/z6X9378DaD! #RUCCLSUCCESS!
Happy #BatAppreciationDay everyone 🦇 here are just a couple of our favourites from the Samuel Richard Tickell manuscripts (c1854-64). We'll Tweet a few more #bats later, but in the meantime, you can find more on our catalogue https://t.co/qm7In9sjfj by searching for ART10000588
Tomorrow! 12 April. Join the British Library, Wikimedia UK, Cardiff Digital Cultures and us to be inspired by talks about manuscripts, poems, Shakespeare, data, coding and all things intersecting the physical and the digital. More info and register here: https://t.co/dalt3BiVhq
Thank you to all on the #AnExtraordinaryOrdinaryMoth blog tour:
https://t.co/JGKCCmJzbQ
Click to learn about my inspiration for the book, writing tips, a list of publishers that accept unsolicited manuscripts, & the best thing I did while waiting for my book to be published.
The decoration was added in stages, across the end of the 13th century and through to the 1320s. A more detailed catalogue entry is available over at our Western Manuscripts catalogue: https://t.co/IQRYLhRl0t
Just like honey: a #medieval Winnie the Pooh appears in a C15th Italian manuscript, Harley MS 3448 f. 10v https://t.co/SZVC3GrljV
Not #openaccess: the allegoric "entrance" of the manuscript by Margarita Mels with her keeping readers out, coll. #library @KB_Nederland, c. 1669
https://t.co/rqDjzQTkQH