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Conservators are preparing this chunky little breviary for the forthcoming exhibition “Pages from th

erikkwakkel:Medieval blingBehold the treasure binding: gold and gems stuck to a medieval book that i

Rosette Shamsa.A shamsa (image of the sun) was regularly placed on the frontispiece of a manuscript

The future King David, still a shepherd, slays a lion to protect his flock; a dead bear and unicorn

Les très belles heures de Notre-Dame.Réalisation commandée par Jean 1er de Berry en 1389.

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)Etude for Piano in C Major, op. 10, no. 7Autograph manuscript, 1832

barcarole:Mozart’s manuscript of the first page of the recitative leading into Cherubino’s aria Voi

whimsical-vanilla:George Gershwin’s handwritten score for Fascinating Rhythm.

mirroir:Manuscript page of John Keats’s ”Ode to a Nightingale”

This diagram from LJS 180, Mechanical Diagrams signed L. F. D. 1783, is part of a collection of diag

biomedicalephemera:“Nature forging a baby”Forget conception or little homunculi, just make your babi

beautifulmedievalmanuscripts:‘De natura rerum liber. Naturales quaestiones libri VII’from Bede Vener

On my continuing trip through the St Gall archives, I come next to MS 14.The manuscript contains fiv

The Vergilius Augusteus is a manuscript from late antiquity, containing the works of the Roman autho

The Quedlinburg Itala fragment (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. theol. lat.

sametyiyin:Illuminated Manuscript of the History of the Qutb Shahi Sultans of Golconda, India, Andhr

hearthside-reader:hearthside-reader: Part of a bramble, from the manuscript oftenest known as the ‘V

bloody diarrheaJohn Arderne, De arte phisicali et de cirurgia, England ca. 1425.Stockholm, Kungliga

Illuminated initial B, beginning Psalm 1 (“Beatus vir”).  Folio 30v from the Leiden St.

Pride riding a lion and Envy riding a greyhound‘The Dunois Hours’, Paris ca. 1440-1450Br

crucified heartRené of Anjou, Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance, France ca. 1470Cologny, Fondation

heart-shaped songbookChansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, Savoy ca. 1475BnF, Rothschild 2973

the lover and the roseRoman de la Rose, Netherlands ca. 1490-1500BL, Harley 4425, fol. 184r

French kissBeatus of Liébana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, Astorga 12th centuryBnF, Nouvelle acquisi

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