Today begins the Hebrew month of Av that is associated with the zodiacal sign of Leo

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4/5 Next up, "The Christ child who comes" illustration from 'A Christmas Carol', 1890. Fully digitised and available online in via our
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🎶On the eighth day of Christmas, we bring to you eight dancing children!🎶
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The Hebrew month of Tevet which begins tomorrow is associated with the zodiac sign of Capricorn

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The subject of this week's Wildlife Wednesday at the British Library is the wise owl. The owl in this lavishly gilded medallion is from a manuscript of Isaiah of Trani the Younger's decisions
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These beautifully executed letters are also from the Ashkenazi Hagadah. A feast for the eyes!

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These superbly crafted letters are from the Ashkenazi Hagadah. A calligraphic tour de force!


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Hats off to these elegant ladies' headgear! Also from our rich and fine Hebrew manuscript collection.


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If you love experimenting or expressing yourself with here's an ace blog post on how to assemble collages using the million plus openly licensed digitised images on the British Library’s Flickr account
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Big thanks to all those who completed last week's Treasures What a colourful bunch! 🏆🎨😊

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A belated tweet, but aren't these traditionally decorated Easter eggs from delightful!

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Another pea plant, pisello salvatico, from the sixteenth-century Add MS 22333, containing paintings of flora of the Roman States, by botanist Gherardo Cibo.

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Passover is coming! The British Library holds some of the most beautiful illustrated Haggadot. In the next 10 days, we'll post images from these manuscripts, and have a plague quiz: guess which plague is shown in the images!

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