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[sefaradweb]

La Hagadá Dorada (Golden Haggadah)

🇪🇸 La Hagadá Dorada (Golden Haggadah) es uno de los manuscritos iluminados hebreos más significativos del período medieval. Creado entre 1320 y 1330 en Cataluña (Barcelona), este texto es un ejemplo sobresaliente de arte sefardí. Es una Hagadá de Pésaj, un libro que guía la celebración de esta festividad judía, decorado con 14 miniaturas de página completa en oro y colores vivos, así como con 36 paneles iniciales de palabras en oro y diseños vegetales. El fondo dorado de sus ilustraciones le otorga su nombre. Además, contiene escenas bíblicas, como historias del Génesis y el Éxodo, distribuidas en cuatro compartimentos por página. El manuscrito incluye textos poéticos, piezas litúrgicas y decoraciones añadidas en el siglo XVII, como bordes ornamentados y una portada. Está escrito en hebreo, en pergamino de alta calidad, y presenta características propias del arte gótico catalán. Fue adquirido por la Biblioteca Británica en 1865, tras pertenecer al coleccionista Giuseppe Almanzi. Este manuscrito es un puente entre las tradiciones artísticas judías y las influencias cristianas medievales.

🇺🇸 The Golden Haggadah is one of the most important illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the medieval period. Created between 1320 and 1330 in Catalonia (Barcelona), this text exemplifies Sephardic art. It is a Passover Haggadah, a guidebook for this Jewish festival, adorned with 14 full-page miniatures in gold and vibrant colors and 36 initial-word panels in gold with floral designs. Its golden backgrounds give it its name. It also features biblical scenes, such as stories from Genesis and Exodus, divided into four compartments per page. The manuscript includes poetic texts, liturgical pieces, and decorations added in the 17th century, like ornate borders and a title page. Written in Hebrew on high-quality parchment, it reflects the Gothic art of Catalonia. Acquired by the British Library in 1865, it once belonged to collector Giuseppe Almanzi. This manuscript bridges Jewish artistic traditions with medieval Christian influences.

[kevlo75]

What does it mean to be Chinese 🇭🇰 🇹🇼 and British 🇬🇧 ? This display of photographs by Jamie Lau offers us eight unique answers to this question. Lau was born in London and grew up in rural Bedfordshire with no extended Chinese community around him. Whilst the UK’s Chinese community is mostly based in towns and cities, in this series Lau introduces us to seven other Chinese and British individuals and what they love about countryside life. Meet artist Qu Lei Lei, who forages for wood for his sculptures on the forest floor. Hear from Ruby Peng who grew up in #singapore 🇸🇬 but is fascinated by the slow pace of countryside living. Discover what Reverend Mark Nam makes of the typically English phrase ‘More tea, Vicar?’ In 2014 Jamie Lau was commissioned by Open Eye Gallery to produce Ebb and Flow, a photographic series on Liverpool’s Chinatown, an abstract study of the architecture and people that make up the oldest Chinatown in Europe. The project had particular relevance to Jamie with his Grandfather having passed through the city as a sailor in the 1890s en route from Hong Kong. 8 Stories develops his interest in merging cultures. Learn more about the history of the #chinese community in the UK and hear stories of the remarkable individuals who have lived through it in our free exhibition Chinese and British, open until Sunday 23 April 2023. #hongkong 🇭🇰 #taiwan 🇹🇼 #macau 🇲🇴 #china 🇨🇳 #britishlibrary (à The British Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7MAzKrMDU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[toothbearer]

I love getting these letters from The British Library after all the hard work writing and illustrating. It's a great feeling and honour in the UK to know that your book is being stored for the nation and will be there long after you've gone. You can have your copy as well, in either paperback, eBook or on KU. Links in bio. Thank you to all that have supported me in this endeavour. #britishlibrary #thetoothbearer #fairies #fairiesofinstagram #cottingleyfairy #kidsbookrecommendations #childrensbookrecommendation #childrensbooks #buythisbook #bookrecommendations #booksofinstagram #booktok https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn_x5IxqzQn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lucysullivanuk]

1st research week at the British Library for SHELTER (part of my @aceagrams funding) & feeling very lucky. Having access to such a wealth of books, articles and audio & visual references is a genuine gift. It’s also free to be a @britishlibrary reader. As are the snazzy lockers. I highly recommend joining. Especially if you’re researching a story. Not to mention the surprise of an early printing press next to the loos for good measure. Today’s reference: Womens Lib 1970, Westway Travellers, Celtic Folk Magic & Witch’s familiars Monday’s was the Newsroom (not pictured) reading microfilm of newspapers from 1970. I can confirm The Sun was as vacuous as ever. Very intrigued by some Evening News stories so more to delve into. #britishlibrary #britishlibrarylondon #research #comiccreator #acegrams #artscouncilengland #acefunded #dycpgrant #shelter #shelterthecomic #shelterearlydoors https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUzQ9bso3q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[publicdomainreview]

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 some late medieval specimens (ca.1440), from Tractatus de Herbis, a wonderful manuscript from northern Italy made to help apothecaries and physicians identify useful ingredients. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tractatus-de-herbis-ca-1440 @britishlibrary

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This is one of the oldest depictions of Stonehenge in existence, and the first to have been drawn on site :: (with thanks to britishlibrary)

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The Solstice

They say the sun will come back at midnight after all my one love

but we know how the minutes fly out into the dark trees and vanish

like the great ʻōhiʻas and honey creepers and we know how the weeks walk into the shadows at midday

at the thought of the months I reach for your hand it is not something one is supposed to say

we watch the bright birds in the morning we hope for the quiet daytime together the year turns into air

but we are together in the whole night with the sun still going away and the year coming back

~ W.S. Merwin, from his book The Rain in the Trees, (Alfred Knopf, 1988). © 2017 by W. S. Merwin (with thanks to the merwinconservancy)

[jadeseadragon]

Sveta Dorosheva @britishlibrary

"Have you seen the incredible artwork for our exhibition, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination? Created by hand by illustrator Sveta Dorosheva, this artwork seamlessly weaves together the four realms of our exhibition: fairy tales and folklore, worlds and portals, epics and quests, weird and uncanny – each area populated with its own characters."

"There are over 65 references to the fantasy genre in this illustration, can you spot:

- The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, tumbling down the rabbit hole

- Gollum, from The Lord of the Rings, lurking in a cave

- Gregor Samsa, reading a copy of Metamorphosis

- Princess Mononoke from Miyazaki’s film of the same name."

[innocentlymacabre]

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/

just learnt that these exist and thought others would find them useful too

[vintagereject]

Old English frician, wk.v: to dance.

(FRIH-chi-ahn / 'fri-tfI-an)

This week's Wordhord Wednesday post is a quiz on last year's favourite words. Test yourself on Patreon: bit. y/ goldgifa

Image: Psalter; England (Oxford), 1200-1210; @britishlibrary

[msamba]

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[alfieshawfmp]

Creating a Title

I wanted to create an interesting title which wasnt just 'the tale' and I turned to collaging type from illuminated letters.

This was my first experiment which felt awkward and like I wasn't being very confident with what I was trying to achieve.

I used illuminated letters from the public domain to collage them into a title.

Library, B. (2013b). British Library digitised image from page 209 of ‘The Century Book of the American Revolution. The story of the pilgrimage of a party of young people to the battlefields of the American Revolution ... Illustrated’ [online]. Available from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/72157638733975756 [Accessed 15 May 2024].

I would take public domain sentences with cool letters like this and scan them in and edit them inillustrator.

I much prefer this title to the old one and I think its much more successful at its job.

[kevlo75]

What is Magna Carta ? Get back in time to medieval England in 1215 under the reign of Bad King John. Why was the charter originally created? And what does it actually say? #magnacarta #london #britishlibrary (à The British Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7KkdtrDn1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hackernewsrobot]

British Library has been offline for three weeks

https://twitter.com/britishlibrary/status/1726618361398722754

[publicdomainreview]

A few of the many wonderful images from an early 19th-century Indian manuscript detailing hatha yoga poses. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika @britishlibrary

[alfieshaw]

Diagrams, Plots, Charts, Waves

Library, B. (2013). British Library digitised image from page 91 of ‘Orient Line Guide ... Fourth edition, revised, with maps and plans. Edited .. by W. J. L’. [online] Flickr. Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11204471763/in/album-72157648088610908/ [Accessed 18 Oct. 2023].

Diagrams often use lines to represent connections, processes, and relationships between elements. For example, flowcharts use arrows and lines to illustrate the flow of information or actions.

Plots and charts heavily rely on lines to plot data points and trends. Line graphs connect data points with lines to show how values change over a continuous variable. In bar charts, lines represent boundaries between different data categories.

Relating back to the brief, the concept of "linearity" can be explored in the context of how lines in diagrams, plots, and charts add to the visualisation of linear relationships or trends. Lines help us perceive patterns, correlations, and sequences in data.

The design choices made in the use of lines within these diagrams and very important. Line thickness, style, colour, and patterns can all impact the clarity of the diagrams, plots, and charts.

I don't really know where I can go with this but I find the visuals very interesting

[rjalker]

"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/72157641858423503"