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The opening of St John's Gospel, 'In Principio', in some gorgeous Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and in the Old English translation: 'On anginne ærest wæs word, and þæt word wæs mid Gode, and God wæs þæt word.'

(BL Add. 34890 & Royal 1 D IX; Bod. Lat liturg. f.5; BL Royal 1 A XIV)

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2020-12-27

St Stephen in red and gold, from an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscript (BL Cotton Caligula A XIV, f. 3v) https://t.co/egdHwvQQ6m

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2020-12-26

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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

So many drafts, so many revisions, one and 2 manuscripts (FJORK THE KINDERGARTEN VIKING amd NOT JUST DINOSAURS) out on submission (🙏 to ). Had some meetings and R&Rs on FJORK and still waiting to hear on NOT JUST DINOS.

Oh, and met

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2020-12-24

The authors think the forgery they discuss was produced by taking a hi-res digital image - available online for scholarly purposes - of an authentic manuscript and printing it on old parchment.

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2020-12-24

Manuscript and level caught up before the new event😆




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2020-12-23

Just wanted to briefly celebrate passing 20k followers! Thank you all for following me and my ridiculous tweets.

Medieval manuscript dance party!

(Morgan, MS M.459, f. 005r)

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2020-12-23

4/ The earliest known version of this was by Alcuin of York in a 9th cent. manuscript called Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes (Problems to Sharpen the Young). His version used wolf + goat + cabbage.
Some version of it appears in the folklore of many European and African cultures

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2020-12-21

160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them https://t.co/iHsMHFmOxI vía

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2020-12-19

The Book of Durrow (650-700AD) is a medieval manuscript created by Irish monks & now in the collections of Trinity College, Dublin. It is the oldest illuminated Gaelic copy of the gospels & famed for its carpet pages. These illuminations have influenced Irish art for centuries

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2020-12-17

If anyone ever wondered how these beautiful manuscripts were made... Only surviving medieval sculpted ink stand with depiction of c.1380-1400, https://t.co/g4GfImzoTD

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2020-12-17

A piece of a forgotten medieval manuscript, Kitten Jousting

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2020-12-17

Meanwhile Monks were reverently illuminating manuscripts with Cock trees

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2020-12-17

enchantedbook:

From the alchemy Manuscript “Clavis Artis”, attributed to the Persian Zoroaster (Zarathustra), 1738.
Library of the National Academy of Lynchs, Rome. https://t.co/lijjFyxPEy

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2020-12-16

2. Quincy

This is Space Quincy, or my first take at her. She was low key gonna be in a sci-fi with most of the same other story elements. Same death church who were judges in their culture. The reason i decided to go fantasy is cause i started writing the manuscript on a whim

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2020-12-16

The anonymous illuminator of the 12th century BNF Latin 1654 and Paul Klee were equally fascinated by how colors play together. Eight hundred years might divide them but they were both just as creative and playful with their art.

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2020-12-15

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

The beautiful Copiale cipher manuscript, written in the 1730s but only cracked in 2011. It was revealed to be the work of a German secret society called the "High Enlightened Oculist Order of Wolfenbüttel", and details their initiation rites, which included eyebrow plucking

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2020-12-14

DL 12/15: Test Site Poetry Prize; submit an unpublished poetry ms to win $1,000 & pub by . "We're looking for manuscripts that engage the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth." https://t.co/317x0GPA28

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2020-12-12