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Today we're releasing three new ML benchmark datasets, based on handwritten character recognition in ancient Japanese manuscripts.

Kuzushiji-MNIST is a drop-in replacement for MNIST, with larger K-49 and K-Kanji datasets also released

Check it out! https://t.co/3laNPrGM7l ✨

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2018-12-09

Traditional Javanese calendrical manuscripts had stylized illustrations inspired by the wayang kulit shadow puppet theatre. But in 1814 Kyai Adipati Suradimanggala of Semarang presented a pawukon to Colin Mackenzie with illustrations in the European style https://t.co/BTClW55jAp

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2018-11-18

Science Literacy Week + = 🎉🌈📚Tomorrow's workshop will explore medieval manuscripts, early printed books, original artworks & other highlights from our history of science collections https://t.co/5QfO8Vsp2e

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2018-09-19

This beautiful illustration of Mecca is taken from a 16th century manuscript (CBL Per 249). Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating today

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2018-08-21

We dipped into lots of manuscripts to make you all a special Tu B'Av bouquet 🌺🌼🌸🌹

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2018-07-27

Let's provocate a little: most beautiful manuscripts are and were made after the invention of the printing press. Mira calligraphiae monumenta by Flemish Joris Hoefnagel and György Bocskay, coll. c.1561-91.

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2018-06-28

'De fato et fortuna' by Coluccio Salutati (1331 - 1406), great political and cultural leader of the in Vat. lat. 3430 (15th cent., first half), - https://t.co/R3QjbIGi1n

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2018-06-28

CATALOGUE 225: Japanese Books, Scrolls, Manuscripts and Woodblocks, please enjoy! View on our website with the following link:

https://t.co/aITEP7EOM6

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2018-06-26

My manuscripts are still a WIP! in the meantime, I'm seeking picture book illustration opportunities.

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2018-06-08

A new exhibition featuring JRR Tolkien's abstract artwork, illustrations, maps & manuscripts is now open in Oxford: https://t.co/kExL3lvAgi

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2018-06-06

The Manly P Hall Collection of alchemical Manuscripts, "Cabala" 1700 (no text) water colour geometrical shapes.

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2018-06-01

have held a uniquely important place in art and They were the symbol of the Ethiopian state. A frequent motif in manuscripts St Samuel of was known for taming lions. Or 637 17th c

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2018-05-30

TOMORROW. See lit-up by a dazzling array of colours and experience dance inspired by the ancient Indian illuminated manuscripts featured within its hugely popular current exhibition: The Alchemy of Colour: https://t.co/19tf5DYQss

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2018-05-16

Taking inspiration from the theme Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, we've compiled our own Best Dressed list from the illuminated manuscripts in our Collections.

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2018-05-08

More demons.
I love how demons look fluffy in medieval illuminated manuscripts...

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2018-05-07

PKD at the moment of the glimmung breaking into his filing cabinet to steal his manuscripts in 1971

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2018-05-03

TOMORROW at 3:00—Hear from Christopher de Hamel, one of the world’s leading experts on medieval manuscripts, as he shares insight from his prize-winning book 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts.'

Free with museum admission; registration required: https://t.co/vcnM9A0NhW

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2018-04-27

Harvey's generous gift attracted other donations, including 11 Arabic and Persian medical manuscripts collected by lawyer and scholar John Selden and given in 1654. (These are MSTR50, MSTR12 and MSTR22.)

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2018-04-25