Exquisite images reminding us that the festival of Purim is next week. From the unique North French Hebrew Miscellany

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

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These 19th century embellished Jewish marriage contracts from Calcutta and Tangier are on view in the 'Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word' exhibition at the British Library

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It's Purim again! Get your costumes, masks and rattles ready for this evening's reading of 'Megilat Ester' (Esther Scroll). Enjoy the festival!
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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!🎶
From E F Manning's The Coming of Father Christmas, in https://t.co/7WJeTO8x2N

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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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It's raining again ... will it never end?!

From a manuscript of John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes

Harley MS 1766, f. 133r

You can view the whole book on our Digitised Manuscripts site:
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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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C is for coffee! Here’s a beautiful pic of a coffee seller from a series of paintings of Turkish costumes (MS 60638) https://t.co/uR5TYC5esH

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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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We love the illustrations in this volume of Ottoman costumes (MS 603680) produced in 1789. Here are some of our favourites https://t.co/OGKElu81kq

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Here's an This scroll was found in an unmarked box, no catalogue records. It carries imperial seals and we think it might be imperial passes - what do you think??
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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.

You can browse the whole digitized manuscript here: https://t.co/fdA3fv2j8X

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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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Radd Tuffman is coming to ComiXology!🤛👊💪#letsgetdigital

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