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BL Add MS 50001, ff 7r-26v. Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sarum use. f. 7r, The Last Supper (Matins)
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Add. 30025 (early 14th c., France) Brunetto Latini, Le livre dou Tresor, f. 73v
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Harley 3022 (c. 1325-1350, Italy) Aristotle, On Animals, f. 32v.The illuminated initial shows Aristotle as a medieval scholar.
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Add. 30024 (late 13th c., France) Brunetto Latini, Le livre dou Tresor, f. 91r. on Aristotle's Ethics, shows the Philosopher as an Arab scholar teaching boy king Alexander the Great
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Egerton 737 (c. 1460-1480, Netherlands). Les Ethiques d'Aristote (transl. Nicolas Oresme), f. 1r.miniature of Aristotle teaching his pupil Alexander the Great
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Detail of a miniature of Josiane with two lions, from the Taymouth Hours, England?(London?), c. 1325-c. 1350
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From the Greek for 'beautiful writing', calligraphy is a script that exhibits exceptional and often self-conscious artistry and aesthetic quality in design and execution
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'Damp Fold' refers to a style of depicting drapery in which the material appears to cling to the body like wet cloth. The drapery folds not only articulate the human figure but, being sinuous and rhythmical, produce a decorative effect
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Underdrawing is a preliminary drawing that lies under the final painted or inked image. Prior to the eleventh century, underdrawing was often executed with a hard point, but thereafter a metal point was generally use
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VikingsExhibition
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In the Company of Cats
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11002693_10153208274842139_5624409884483155468_o
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British Library Add. MS 74236, p. 216 Here is the Easter Sunday page from the Sherborne Missal. A missal is a book containing the text needed to celebrate Mass
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Add. MS 74236 Sherborne Missal2 f276 Add MS 74236
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Calendar page, northern France (Saint-Omer or Therouanne), c. 1320, Add MS 36684, f. 1v
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BL. from the Smithfield Decretals, southern France (with marginal scenes added in London), c. 1300 – c. 1340, Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 30v
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+Additional 27695 f. 14 Gluttony
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The Russian letter г (English g) is for ‘burning’ in this Alphabet of a Red Army Soldier. The inscription reads ‘The Earth burns with a fire lit by the worker’s hand’.
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Isabella Mary Beeton, Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery and Housekeeping Book, London, 1907, 07944.g.63
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Of unicorns and other oddities- our Asia and Africa team explores an 18th-century Persian medical manual
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Arundel 302 f. 156v Detail
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