The divided generation: the builders of the Tower of Babel kill each other #HebrewProject
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N.E.; f.3r @BLAsia_Africa@BL_HebrewMSS
The construction of the Tower of Babel, to the destruction of which is attributed the confusion of languages
BL Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; 2nd quarter of the 11th century with notes added in 12th century; England (Canterbury); f.19r @BLMedieval
The Tower of Babel being attacked by angels
BL Add 18850; 'Bedford Hours'; c1410-1430 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.17v @BLMedieval
The construction of the Tower of Babel with sages advising Nimrod to stop the work.
BL Egerton MS 1894; Egerton Genesis Picture Book; 14th century; England (Norfolk?); f.5v @BLMedieval
The builders are busily constructing the Tower of Babel
BL Egerton MS 2781; The 'Neville of Hornby Hours'; 14th century;
England, SE; f.8r @BLMedieval
The construction of the Tower of Babel is depicted in this historiated 'I'(n) at the beginning of Genesis.
BL Burney 3; 'The Bible of Robert de Bello'; 13th century; England, S. E.; f.5v @BLMedieval
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Fascinating discussion of Aristotle's Biology in this episode of @BBCInOurTime . After leaving the Academy, Aristotle took an empirical turn and examined a great variety of life forms while by the Sea of Marmara and then on the island of Lesbos. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Alexander enthroned and Aristotle pointing at a lion and a rabbit as examples for the king
BL Add 47680; Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum Secretorum; England, S. E. (London); between 1326 CE and 1327 CE; f.37r @BLMedieval
A fool in a wheelbarrow, and a scholar looking at the celestial bodies above him, decorate this initial 'S' in Aristotle's Physica.
BL Harley MS 3487; Aristotle, Libri naturales; 3rd quarter of the 13th century; England (Oxford?); f.22v @BLMedieval bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
The Feast of St Michael and All Angels is on 29th September. Here Michael the Archangel is holding the scales to weigh the souls at the Last Judgement and spears a dragon.
BL Harley MS 624; Passionale; 12th century; England SE (Canterbury); f.134v @BLMedieval
St Michael as a warrior wearing chainmail is here spearing a dragon.
BL Yates Thompson 2; 'The Ottobeuren Collectar'; 12th century; Germany, S. (Ottobeuren); f.37r @BLMedieval
St Michael slaying the dragon and pulling a soul from the dragon's mouth
BL Egerton 3763; 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan'; between 998 CE & 1018 CE; Italy, N. (Milan); f.104v @BLMedieval