The Changing Of The Guards! Guards!

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Goodnight🌖

From Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book of Miracles), an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg Germany circa 1550.

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17 Sept 1635: Archbishop James Ussher writes to the Dean of Armagh & Professor of Greek at Basel, James Frey about revenues and manuscripts, ending with this elegant phrase: "I conclude and commend your God-pleasing concerns to the Son of God".

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Hans Augusto Reyersbach was born on this day, September 16, in 1898.

In 1940, he and his partner, Margarete, fled Paris on makeshift bicycles as Nazi tanks approached.

One of the few items they carried with them was a children’s book manuscript about a “curious monkey”…

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The Codex Germanicus 67 manuscript restoration began in 1962 by Hans Heiland's Stuttgart workshop.

All the leaves suffered from severe decay on the green-coloured passages in the miniatures (images).

The restoration has been miraculous. https://t.co/SYesLlT6mq

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"The Self Immolation of Gogol (Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of Dead Souls)" (1909) by Ilya Repin

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The modern digitisation of this particular manuscript has turned these illustrations into a ‘flip book of the Middle Ages’.

Motion is conveyed because each image depicts every step of the poem's story and, are successive, giving the appearance of a series of film frames. https://t.co/ynkQF8yi7o

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The Codex Palatinus Germanicus 67 is a late medieval manuscript from the former Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg Germany.

It belongs to the Codices Palatini Germanici, the German-language manuscripts of the Palatina, kept in the Heidelberg University Library since 1816. https://t.co/nK2ti6FhUE

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"Diagram of the Winds", one of several medieval cosmographic diagrams found in a 12th-century English manuscript. See more of its wonderful cosmographic imagery here: https://t.co/nqqTRBZmen

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Aztec Restoration
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13.13 $XTZ
A scene from plate 70 of the sacred Aztec manuscript the Codex Borgia, depicting a banner waving jaguar.
Ink and watercolour.
https://t.co/8GPTGhQ2Cx

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Aztec Restoration
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A scene from plate 70 of the sacred Aztec manuscript the Codex Borgia, depicting a banner waving jaguar.
Ink and watercolour.
https://t.co/8GPTGhPuMZ

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Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts | 11 October

Read more: https://t.co/XFN4Dvw8M1

GOULD, John (1804-81). The Birds of Great Britain, London, [1862-]73, 5 volumes, large folio, 367 hand-coloured lithographed plates. First edition. Est £30,000-50,000

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Personal manuscript
But he's cute

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This month's newsletter has some sneaky previews of the arts I've been working on 👀 If you're an indie author looking to personalise your manuscript you might want to make sure you're signed up before 6pm (BST) 😉💙

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There's no shortage of griffins to choose from among medieval manuscripts! Key characteristics include that they carry off large livestock to feed their young -- and humans count as livestock in their book. 2/5

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my manuscript vs. my synopsis 🥲

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sakura
Please do not use the manuscript for presentation.

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