#MedievalMonday #ManuscriptMonday #Africa #Ethiopia The Cleveland Museum of Art Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a Portrait of St. Luke, 15th century

Iris, from a 19c Fi Hayula al-Tibb
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The 'Mandal al-Sulaymani' is a book on Jinn anthropology, detailing how Jinns from 12 tribes look, live and behave, along with instructions on exorcism using Solomonic Verses for all of these tribes are sworn to obey Hazrat Suleman (A). #ManuscriptMonday

#ManuscriptMonday - Leaf from a “Book of Hours” | (The Walters Art Museum). Particularly popular in the Middle Ages, they are the most common type of medieval illuminated manuscript. Place of origin: Bruges, Belgium. The manuscript measures 3 3/4 x 2 9/16 in. (9.5 x 6.5 cm)

The Treatise on the Astrolobe, translated by Chaucer from Latin to English for his son Lewis. The original Latin text was a translation from an Arabic text written by a Persian Jewish scholar.
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O lux beata trinitas; a hymn for vespers on Saturday. The hymnbook for the Augustinian friars of the monastery of the Holy Saviour at Lecceto was designed so a group could sing round it and also admire the dragon, grasshopper, and Trinity! #medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday

A record of a birthing charm, to be placed on the womb during childbirth. Dating to the last quarter of the fourteen century.
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This morality story is also found in manuscript illumination, the ‘De Lisle Psalter’ (Arundel MS 83, f.127r) is a good C14th example of this. It’s interesting to compare how medieval artists handled this subject over different mediums!

1 scroll = 2.5 Alison’s 📏
It’s difficult to tell the scale of items from digital images, so I’m delighted to show how long the 15th-century alchemical Ripley Scroll (@bodleianlibraries MS. Bodl. Rolls 1) actually is! 😂📜
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Lovely manuscript #fragment used to cover a work on Rosicrucianism from 1617 #ManuscriptMonday

In Ottoman mythology, the horrors of hell include scorpion and snake attacks alongside being tormented by zabaniya, or hell wardens.
🎨 is from a 17c ms, Ahval-ı Kıyamet, a book that surveys of the signs of the apocalypse and its aftermath 🖤 #MythologyMonday #ManuscriptMonday

Dive into the intricate world of calligraphy with this single folio from the Qur'an for #ManuscriptMonday . With roots tracing back to the Hijaz, this piece carries the essence of early Arabic script, as described by the 10thC Baghdadi bibliographer, al-Nadim

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Blue da-ba-de-da-ba-da

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Woke Up Like This

#mood #dragon #hybrid #MedievalTwitter #ManuscriptMonday

#NewberryLibrary (Case MS 102.2)

Today marks the beginning off pisces season 🐟 and as it’s Manuscript Monday we thought we’d share this image of the mountains of India, from The Jami‘ al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din as it feature two little fish swimming in the sea.

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Autumn is officially here 🍂 Today for #ManuscriptMonday we thought we’d share this Calligraphic Composition from our Islamic Arts Collection. This 19th century work uses gold on the skeleton of a tobacco leaf.

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Damaged ownership inscription of the Mughal emperor #Jahangir in a copy of #Saʻdi 's Divan dated 995/1587 at Herat, copied by Muhammad al-katib (Add Ms 25812)
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Last week I had the great privilege of looking at Cambrai MS 679, which has the oldest example of Old Irish prose (fols. 37r-38r), a homily on the colours of martyrdom. #manuscript #medieval #ManuscriptMonday #oldirish (1/2)

A deed from 1643 Óstaí an Rí | King’s Inns , referring to a 'house built by Nicholas Plunkett Esquire within the Inns of Court'. There is no shortage of wax seals here! #ManuscriptMonday

Page from 'On Squaring and Circling' by al-Jahiz (d. 868/869 CE), found - somewhat unexpectedly - in the #Cairo #Genizah . It is one of the oldest surviving copies of any of al-Jahiz’s works (ca. 10th century). #manuscriptmonday