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Thanks to for some sage advice about revising your picture book manuscript! https://t.co/S5QkFeg1Gh

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2018-03-20

Coming up tomorrow on the Medieval Manuscripts Blog: our new blogpost by on the subject of medieval midwifery (here's a sneak preview)

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2018-03-20

Are you wearing green today for For St. Paddy himself, the color of choice was blue, as seen in the earliest known portrait of Ireland's patron saint, from a 13th-century manuscript in The Huntington's collection.

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2018-03-18

A Red Dragon and a Crown on a background of Tudor livery colours of Green and White, taken from a manuscript (Arundel MS 66 ff. 33r-47r in ) created during around 1490 during the reign of Henry VII.

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2018-03-12

...Had to 'fish around' for a new children's poetry book title with my agent - success!

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2018-03-10

Finally got a chance to finish this! Saipan Bridled White-eye, to be used in a manuscript I'm working on about how these birds and a few others fared in Typhoon Soudelor a couple years back.

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2018-03-07

Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: The Three Riddles Original Painting Wisemen King Solomon Alchemist Magic Gods Nymphs Kings Medieval Scroll Spell Manuscript Art Illumimated https://t.co/YGlX7HwxC9

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2018-03-07

Question: is there a requirement on some publications that all manuscripts have a molecular density greater than Osmium?
Detail and specificity are all well and good, but is it necessary for non-specific language to be impenetrably dry and verbose?

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2018-03-05

A large part of Wynnstay mansion was burnt, destroying the valuable library of Welsh manuscripts 1858 https://t.co/iv5ObElgrJ

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2018-03-05

How do you know when your picture book manuscript is at the right stage to send out to agents and editors? Natascha Biebow spells it out.
https://t.co/83OSzi4Jn5

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2018-02-21

“I would be free down to my very rhymes,” from the Preface to Hunt’s Rimini (pub 1816). But you’ll not find the quote in print. Clarice Short examines Hunt’s manuscripts, revisions, & creative process in (1972/73) https://t.co/5cgPr8htuu

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2018-02-16

How did you capture a wedding when photography didn't exist? You commissioned illuminated manuscripts to keep a record of party, guests, dresses and everything else! Urb. lat. 899: Celebrations for the Marriage of Costanzo Sforza & Camilla D'Aragona,15th C.

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2018-02-15

Happy Check out Darwin's children's drawn on an manuscript draft ca. 1885. https://t.co/casFuQWaow

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2018-02-13

To celebrate the birth anniversary of the doodles Darwin's children made in his “On the Origin of Species” manuscript.
https://t.co/9OeLKUVduT 1809

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2018-02-12

Jeanne de Montbaston; Historia de Proeliis [Royal 19 D I]
f. 77v: The Battle of Genghis Khan and Prester John
France (1340)
Illuminated Manuscript, 425 x 310

https://t.co/rGbmO1tad0

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2018-02-06

Text + images work together in figural poems from a c. 1170 copy of De laudibus sanctae crucis by Hrabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz (died 856)
Explore the whole manuscript: https://t.co/7S48FbryYE

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2018-02-04

The Islamic Heritage Project includes digitized copies of over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps, totaling over 156,000 pages. 🔗:https://t.co/WLe1iKgU65

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2018-01-28

And my favourite medieval manuscript is also on show in Astronomy

It dates from around the time of the Norman Conquest, and we chose to display it at this page showing Sagittarius, the centaur. Just beautiful!



https://t.co/3sxwGkgLOM

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2018-01-22

While dying of tuberculosis George Orwell went to a remote Scottish house to write what he knew would be his final book: 1984. He submitted the manuscript in mid-1949, and died, on this day, January 21st, in 1950, aged 46. 1984 remains a warning.
Images by Jonathan Burton

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2018-01-22