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St James always looks ready to wander off the manuscript page and set out on his travels, except when he's distracted by his reading.

Images from 14th/15th-century manuscripts, Bodleian MS. Douce 245 & BL Add. 50001, Egerton 3277, Yates Thompson 3.

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2021-07-25

I'm slowly but surely working on some manuscripts, with the hope of eventually finding an agent and publisher.

But I thought I should start sharing this area of my work more in the meantime.
A vignette from one of my stories. :)

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2021-07-07

結局、"Illustrations from Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825"として挙げられた４葉のうち２葉は先に見た通りだが、残り２葉（図）は『Thesaurus thesaurorum』(c. 1725)から抜粋されたものらしい。全編(126頁）を見たければ
https://t.co/pK22Tpnu7s

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2021-07-05

Abstract Xena fan art with Celtic design



My inspirations of this piece are from Medieval illuminated manuscripts, especially pages from The Book of Kells and The Lindisfarn Gospels.

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2021-06-19

Admiring the Summer blooms appearing in your garden? Here are a couple of the wonderful illustrations from J. Duke's 'The Compleat Florist' featuring in our Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs auction to enjoy. Take a closer look: https://t.co/Z3EbrDE1Pi

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2021-06-13

🐢World Turtle Day🐢
Tortoises are briefly discussed by Thomas de Cantimprato in De natura rerum libri XX. Turtles are painted in both of our manuscripts, ie XIV A 15 from end of 14th century and X A 4 from first quarter of 15th century. Both turtles look a bit like monsters.

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2021-05-23

Diagram of an alchemist's furnace, 17th Century. From Manly P. Hall's collection of alchemical manuscripts, Box 18, MS 102, v. 6. Source: Getty Research Institute

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2021-05-15

We've been working hard to add lots of material to our : https://t.co/AZ6nqeI8RL These include archives and manuscripts, photographs, maps, books and journals, newspapers, oral histories, films and audio.

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2021-04-12

What did we bring to the Firsts book fair? Not only books & manuscripts, but also prints! Get the bigger picture at : https://t.co/Rf63PKqNrA

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2021-02-20

The opening of St John's Gospel, 'In Principio', in some gorgeous Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and in the Old English translation: 'On anginne ærest wæs word, and þæt word wæs mid Gode, and God wæs þæt word.'

(BL Add. 34890 & Royal 1 D IX; Bod. Lat liturg. f.5; BL Royal 1 A XIV)

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2020-12-27

I don't have anywhere near as big a collection of them as the gleeful medieval/renaissance scholar Malcolm Jones, but they show up in manuscripts, prints, even on shooting targets! This 1629 target has a silly text about the, ahem, piquing, of curiosity...
https://t.co/VVW8Ceo8Zi

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2020-11-18

Manuscripts, papers, artworks & artifacts in Library collections that remember and honour courage and sacrifice ➡️ https://t.co/1uKm9lc0MW

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2020-11-12

more bulgarian light infantry from the illuminated manuscripts, including roof shingle coif man

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2020-10-17

Second Story’s ARTS & ANTIQUES
store features posters, paintings, drawings, photographs, illustrated books, manuscripts, maps, autographs, historical documents, antiquarian books and collectibles.
Go to https://t.co/ZTtwBnMTsX

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2020-08-26

Thought it was high time I started posting my art on here. This is Seth. He's a human dumpster fire, the protagonist of one of my manuscripts, and my favorite out of all my OCs.

Enjoy.

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2020-08-16

A reminder that although our venue is closed you can still access huge amounts of free content! Digitised books, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, archives, films, artworks and much more are available on our website! Have a look at what's there for you: https://t.co/SChrt1LILJ

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2020-07-06

A fascinating array of related items star in our Wed 17 June auction of Rare Books, Maps & Photographs including a letter from Burns to his 'kind funny friend', Francis Grose about Burn's renown poem 'Tam O’Shanter'. Learn more: https://t.co/DMMbzgoJfM

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2020-06-03

Illustrations from the Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, [1600]
https://t.co/pFRja1EpA1

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2020-05-16

POV: you are Akaashi Keiji, and your eyes burn from pouring over manuscripts, and yet you could never get tired of looking at your gleaming husband

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2020-05-04

Treasures of the week (VI): Islamic Heritage Project

A digital collection of hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and texts from ’s renowned libraries and museums. These rare - and frequently unique - materials are freely available worldwide.

👉https://t.co/ePztQufG7K

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2020-04-14