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Jun 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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
Jun 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Emperor Lothar I in a cloak decorated with precious stones
BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.4r @BLMedieval bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
King David
BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.5r @BLMedieval
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
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
Sep 27, 2021 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
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
