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Dear followers, we love you! 💕 Here are some of our favourite blog posts from over the years, because there’s nothing more romantic than medieval manuscripts 😘
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2020-02-14

6/12 Blake’s project was left unfinished at his early death in 1773 but related manuscripts & paintings kept in several archives (the attached images are kept ) allow for unprecedented information on Chinese go-betweens that helped British naturalists

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2020-02-13

We just added four new medieval manuscripts to our project site, featuring:

• Dogs and hares
• Saints’ lives
• An otherworldly flying creature we think might be a dragon but honestly we're not sure
• Bede

👉 https://t.co/w7S6QNaRFU

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2020-02-13

This week is Bo, the final three plagues: it's locust season. 🦗🦗🦗🦗 Across manuscripts they're differently depicted, but there's always too many. (Sloane MS 3173, Add MS 14762, Or 2884, all digitised: https://t.co/LBGa4A2mAN) 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

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2020-02-01

Numerous times in medieval manuscripts, knights can be seen fighting snails… but why?

Check out “A Battle for the Ages” by Shabazik: https://t.co/raSQMqwAGi

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2020-01-26

14th cent.
illuminated manuscript of the four gospels created at a monastic centre in ethiopia



the world's oldest illuminated christian manuscripts were made in ethiopia in the 5th century, christianity became the aksumites' state religion in the 4th cent. under

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2020-01-22

FREE LECTURE: 'When is a not a Viking? and the Vikings in An exploration of the curious ways in which the Vikings who martyred St Edmund are depicted in medieval illuminated manuscripts from

More:
https://t.co/Zl1j76oUGs

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2020-01-07

Chomp chomp chomp: Is homodonty really real? What regulates the speed of tooth replacement? Why do some teeth have ridges? Looking forward to some amazing manuscripts answering these questions 🙂

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2020-01-05

Over your break, take some time to catch up on manuscripts. We have a variety of articles encompassing morphology, ecology, evolution, and many more.

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2019-12-10

Why Do So Many Medieval Manuscripts Depict Violent Rabbits?
"For some strange reason medieval artists loved painting violent rabbits on a murderous rampage."
https://t.co/czZEp4NATD

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2019-12-08

as it was foretold in the ancient manuscripts

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2019-11-22

It’s always a pleasure to host students in our Print Room. Today we looked at Mughal manuscripts & paintings including the Baburbama, portraits of Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan ..

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2019-11-19

One of my favourite manuscripts, BL MS Additional 50005 (c.1420), is a particuarly gruesome and dynamic piece of work, however the 'noli me tangere' ('touch me not') scene between Mary and Christ depicts a moment of hope and peace. 7/?

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2019-11-09

Happy Halloween! Stop by various spots in Swem today—including the SCRC lobby—to stock up on your favorite sweets! 🍭

And while candy isn't allowed in our reading room, we do have an assortment of candy-related manuscripts to satisfy your sweet tooth!

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2019-10-31

Day 16 - Wild

Inside the abandoned part of the Infinite Libary, you can find old, musty books and manuscripts, that are left to the elements because of the outdated information they contain.

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2019-10-29

Practice ♥
Man gotta work on the manuscripts ahahha xD

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2019-10-28

Finally, fixed a plot hole in one of my favorite Thanks to the brilliant advice of Later, I saw this and busted out laughing!

Hope it makes you laugh too! Have a better day than poor broccoli!

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2019-10-19

Lets just pretend it's still Hi I'm Charlie and I'm an illustrator that wants to work in (I have 2 illustrated manuscripts ready!)
is my jam! Retweet to help out <3

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2019-10-09

Manuscripts from the Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq. A grammar book with geometric decoration, written in script, in the language, it dates to the 17th/18th-century. The author is Timotheos Isḥāq, Metropolitan of Amid (active 1654-1665).
via: hmml

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2019-10-06