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🦑It’s from N’kai that frightful Tsathoggua came—you know-the amorphous, toad-like god-creature mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon and the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton🎨Black Eyed🦑#ClarkAshtonSmith

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2019-08-27

Considered one of the most important painters from the period btw late & early was also a One of his manuscripts is kept @ whose collection is on Register.
👉https://t.co/MRceGAGt0L

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2019-08-22

Antiphonary (#NationalLibraryCZ III D 10)
from the mid-fifteenth century with an interesting collection of Latin sacred songs (contrafacta of originals from the tradition of the German Minnesang).

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2019-08-16

I doodled this lil part from one of my old YA novel manuscripts where my protagonist gets dumped. I’ve been wondering how the story might look as a graphic novel instead.

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2019-08-10

For the Walters celebrates it's founder and bibliophile, Henry Walters! He collected over 3,500 manuscripts, bindings, and printed books, from ancient papyrus to the modern day, gifting Baltimore with one of the most remarkable book collections in the USA!

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2019-08-10

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An ambitious project aimed at digitising and cataloguing the heritage of Universitaria in an online platform featuring manuscripts, printed books and maps. Discover it: https://t.co/O2i2R77we8

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2019-08-08

A selection of the charming pictures of & found in manuscripts in the British Library's collections. 🐦🦉🐝 https://t.co/DjGchWD3n1

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2019-08-07

Bunnies laying down the law in medieval manuscripts. Not many people know that besides the Aristocracy, the Clergy, and the Commons, there was a fourth class—the Bunnies. Cunning and cruel warriors, they were quite active during the Crusades, hence for example Crusader Rabbit.

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2019-08-07

This week, we’re showcasing one of our manuscripts: MS 132, a mid-15thC Italian bestiary. This treatise features watercolour illustrations of animals, such as this https://t.co/GTZ8YNKARA

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2019-08-06

Birds 🦉🦜🦅 versus bees 🐝🐝🐝

Which our your favourites? Here's a round-up of some of the best images from manuscripts.

https://t.co/YGPh0QOlop

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2019-08-05

The birds and the bees - Medieval manuscripts blog https://t.co/V4fBpKaKTK

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2019-08-05

In this blogpost, writes about manuscripts relating to the life and legacy of St Patrick
https://t.co/Z4fD4TqAUo

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2019-08-01

Culture vultures (well, they're both found in medieval manuscripts, how much more 'cultural' can you get?!)

Harley MS 3244, f. 51r
Sloane MS 3544, f. 23r

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2019-08-01

It's newly digitized manuscript day on the website! Five new medieval manuscripts online, featuring historiated initials, Anglo-Saxon minuscule, and two volumes of Pauline epistles spanning 400 years. https://t.co/w7S6QNaRFU

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2019-07-31

One of the Bodleian's manuscripts, MS. Laud Misc. 96, contains half a dozen different bastarda hands. These images show the range of forms this script can take--and the challenge for palaeographers. https://t.co/UDZieNn0Rk

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2019-07-23

'Humbugging, or Raising the Devil' by Thomas Rowlandson (1800), from .

Cunning-folk were the sort of wizards who knew how to put on a good show. Arcane objects filled their consulting rooms: skulls, strange animals, herbs, & mysterious manuscripts, as shown here.

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2019-07-22

Do you have any written material you would like published? Send your manuscripts to submission.com

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2019-07-04

BOOKS: Not just a book about or a book about historical manuscripts, CATS IN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS is funny and enlightening with some exquisite illustrations...

Full review: https://t.co/BygNSXBM0r

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2019-06-24

Happy Here is a 16th c. painting of and Two Ancient Britons, by Lucas De Heere, from manuscript Add MS 28330 (folios 36r and 8v). You can browse the whole manuscript in our Digitized Manuscripts page here: https://t.co/3Zx8WZe5lJ

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2019-06-21

This is a new one for me - beautiful illustrations painted on fig leaves.

These two manuscripts will soon be digitised as part of the project
Or 8855 & Add ms 11746

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2019-06-12