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Celebrating with a detail from a favourite painting 📚 Per 270.66, Iskandar marries Roshanak, painted by Mu ‘in Musavvir, Shahnama, Isfahan, 1066/ 1655

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2021-03-08

If you are new to looking at or working with Islamicate manuscripts and want a short intro course. The course M-85b is being taught using this collection. Apply by Monday (8 Mar): https://t.co/z3Z4tNkLV1 Here are some Friday flower details for you.

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2021-03-06

Depictions of dragons and serpents are found in Ethiopian art. The illustration are sophisticated and they look much more like reptilian.

Here are some of my favourite images of dragons in manuscripts art, from the collection.


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2021-03-06

Anyone seen the dragons in manuscripts as well as the churches? They're gorgeous pieces of art

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2021-03-04

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 interesting world of medieval manuscripts. I’ve always wondered what a medieval Yoda would look like...

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2021-02-11

Resources and the park: https://t.co/W2a7rYbdCb - a treasure trove of books, manuscripts and periodicals from heritage libraries in Flanders.......https://t.co/UzljVFWEQ2

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2021-02-04

The monthly rare books/manuscripts salon e-Rendez-vous is open! https://t.co/FYMIWWU1pF

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2021-02-04

At the end of last year, we completed the digitization of part of the manuscripts from the shelf marks National Library CZ V D and V E (22 pieces). These manuscripts dates usually from the 15th (or 14th century), in most cases from Bohemia.

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2021-01-30

Friends, am taking on and projects now. Trying to draw on more than 2 decades of publishing experience to enable writers to develop manuscripts they can be proud of, and yes, this also helps keep afloat. So, do spread the word.

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2021-01-29

Tonight is yet another night of going to bed late, so I can't help but find myself on Twitter while consulting my manuscripts tonight...

If anyone has any burning questions or requests for me, then this is as good a time as any for them!

Retweets are appreciated, as always!

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2021-01-29

Can we hire monks to make illuminated manuscripts as our brand? Get that late-Carolingian nostalgia

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2021-01-08

I've saved this contribution until well after the watershed

Here, a miniature of Delilah binding Samson to a bed. His lavish locks are evident. Bible, 1445. Manuscripts & Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

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2021-01-07

Manuscripts can be read just about anywhere . . .

It's opening day for the Little Gnome imprint. Thank you to all the wonderful authors who have already submitted. You have some great stories!

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2021-01-02

Still one of my favourite 12th-century manuscripts (or of any century, for that matter).

British Library Arundel MS 91
https://t.co/IlltP13a5M

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2020-12-31

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

So many drafts, so many revisions, one and 2 manuscripts (FJORK THE KINDERGARTEN VIKING amd NOT JUST DINOSAURS) out on submission (🙏 to ). Had some meetings and R&Rs on FJORK and still waiting to hear on NOT JUST DINOS.

Oh, and met

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2020-12-24

160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them https://t.co/iHsMHFmOxI vía

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2020-12-19

If anyone ever wondered how these beautiful manuscripts were made... Only surviving medieval sculpted ink stand with depiction of c.1380-1400, https://t.co/g4GfImzoTD

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2020-12-17