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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

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

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

Happy everyone 🦇 here are just a couple of our favourites from the Samuel Richard Tickell manuscripts (c1854-64). We'll Tweet a few more later, but in the meantime, you can find more on our catalogue https://t.co/qm7In9sjfj by searching for ART10000588

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2018-04-17

Tomorrow! 12 April. Join the British Library, Wikimedia UK, Cardiff Digital Cultures and us to be inspired by talks about manuscripts, poems, Shakespeare, data, coding and all things intersecting the physical and the digital. More info and register here: https://t.co/dalt3BiVhq

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2018-04-11

Thank you to all on the blog tour:
https://t.co/JGKCCmJzbQ
Click to learn about my inspiration for the book, writing tips, a list of publishers that accept unsolicited manuscripts, & the best thing I did while waiting for my book to be published.

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2018-04-04

The decoration was added in stages, across the end of the 13th century and through to the 1320s. A more detailed catalogue entry is available over at our Western Manuscripts catalogue: https://t.co/IQRYLhRl0t

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2018-04-03