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Monday blues
f. 309v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible
u/UnicornAmalthea_ — 10 days ago
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The Knight of the Swan. Detail of a miniature, manuscript British Library, Royal 15 E VI ("Talbot Shrewsbury Book"), folio 273r (first page of Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne)
u/UnicornAmalthea_ — 1 month ago
Fuzzy bees pollinating flowers
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291 [De rerum naturis], folio 106r
u/UnicornAmalthea_ — 1 month ago
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Rare giraffe welcomed to zoo to save species from extinction
itv.comu/UnicornAmalthea_ — 2 months ago
A rabbit runs into a hole on one side of the page and pops out on the other side.
‘Hours of the Virgin’ Harley MS 6563 f. 33r-v. circa. 1320-30, Southern England
u/AS_Bridge — 2 months ago
Bees entering their hive 🐝 This is so cute!
Bees entering their hive. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511 [The Ashmole Bestiary], folio 75v
u/The_British_Wolf_Guy — 2 months ago
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A rabbit funeral procession
MS 1-2005, fol. 152r: A Rabbit Funeral Procession, marginal decoration from the Macclesfield Psalter, Use of Sarum, East Anglia, c.1330
u/UnicornAmalthea_ — 3 months ago
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Girl’s Night Interrupted
Add. 42130, f.63 Lady at her toilet, illustration from 'The Luttrell Psalter', c.1321-35
u/UnicornAmalthea_ — 3 months ago
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Folio 85r
‘Jacob’s dream of the heavenly ladder.’
Book of Hours, Flanders, probably Bruges. c. 1510-20. MS 1058-1975
u/UnicornAmalthea_ — 4 months ago