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Illustrated in the style of an illuminated medieval manuscript, we'll be sharing more imagery as we approach our early March campaign launch, but here is a little taste of what's awaiting you...

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2021-01-30

I've never been one to design my characters, but I've been trying it with those in my new manuscript, and I LOVE it. Amazing how I've learned so much about these guys just by putting them together with a Picrew! but also Link: https://t.co/nzAehxpdon

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2021-01-10

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4. Peter Apian, Cosmographie, Paris, 1581 (original lead weight!). https://t.co/LbCIowgS3u
5. Vincenzo Capirola, Lute Manuscript, 1517. https://t.co/H1H3ZKcfkV
6. Anonymous, Cordiform Map in Fool’s Cap, engraving, c. 1590. https://t.co/hXwqiyIfIB

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2020-12-25

Advent Calendar 2020, Explained!


1. German Calligraphic Calendar Manuscript, 1617
https://t.co/X3Do2Zw1S8

2. Albrecht Dürer, World Map, 1515 (1781)
https://t.co/ceuZJfjsSQ

3. Girdle Book and Master BF miniature
https://t.co/Olcw82eYLg
https://t.co/5KYkBZnyRV

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2020-12-25

A piece of a forgotten medieval manuscript, Kitten Jousting

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2020-12-17

Pages from the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary, c. 1500. This manuscript, created in Suffolk, England, provides unique testimony to the natural knowledge and mythical imagination of the Tudor era. 🦌

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2020-12-14

This week's Museum Crush digest: down a deep well in Brighton, a convict escape caper, a forgotten medieval manuscript, portraits of musical women and how to explain the Stone Age. https://t.co/9telpTmGqS

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2020-11-21

Bringing old stories to life at the House of Manannan, a scene by Julia Ashby-Smyth. Inspired by the Medieval manuscript, The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles. In 1228, King Olaf II faced his brother Reginald at Tynwald. It didn’t end well for Reginald!

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2020-10-15

Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript, finished around 1556. “Considered to be of pre-Hispanic origin, since it preserves a strong indigenous tradition in its pictographic techniques…” https://t.co/vQ9n1M9AAg via

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2020-10-01

And finally, medieval rabbit marginalia and an actual note found in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, left by a man who truly hated his boss

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2020-08-31

We know a lot about the beautiful just not the composer! It's from 1716 & dedicated to future HRE Charles VII. Read for more:
https://t.co/25zr68dwPv

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2020-08-24

I liked this apocalypse lamb from MS. Douce 180, a 13th-century English manuscript, enough to do fanart of it.

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2020-07-22

On this day, July 16, 1816, finished writing her first version of Persuasion. Not happy with the ending, she worked two more days to perfect it. See her original manuscript, with her cross-outs and revisions here.
https://t.co/GAYxPhR8Uy

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2020-07-17

If you need a little escapism this week, look out for our final pull out in today’s . Discover magical myths and legends, study a stunning medieval manuscript, and find out about the amazing upcoming activities on offer in our renovated Keep.

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2020-06-05

Just received these stunning figures of African painted dog (#Lycaon pictus) forelimb muscles for our manuscript, beautifully illustrated by

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2020-04-04

Though we weren't lucky enough to find a 🍀in our collections for here are lovely watercolor leaves in our French herbarium manuscript, possibly Explore this & 100+ other digitized https://t.co/RQDOj5jPQ0.

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2020-03-18

"Approach & Entry Into Dis," Italian manuscript, 1355.

"Tell him to go away. Just get out there and tell him we're not voting for fucking Bloomberg."

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2020-03-05

OTD, 1415, the Battle of
L: miniature from C15th French manuscript, shows evenly matched battle (far from truth).
R: John Gilbert’s “Morning of the Battle of Agincourt” (1884, Guildhall Art Gallery) imagines a dejected English army, knowing it is impossibly outnumbered

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2019-10-25

(RTs appreciated!)

Did you know that Bound by Fate is set in two time periods? The story is told both through Shane and Lavina. To celebrate finishing the manuscript, the first two are available!

Chapter one: https://t.co/kHtueEnDLw
Chapter two: https://t.co/t2CetFV6Xx

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2019-09-30

We're celebrating our official blog launch w/ a MEGA GIVEAWAY to win a picture book manuscript, dummy, or portfolio critique w/ one of our Soaring ’20s members!

The contest runs through 11:59 p.m. Sept. 15, 2019. Winners announced Sept. 17!

ENTER HERE: https://t.co/q3LpnKbA77

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2019-09-11