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irisharchaeology: “ A medieval knight & horse depicted on a 13th century French bible (Morgan M.969 Bible with prologues, Folio 346v-2) ”

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Copenhagen, Royal Library NKS Illustrated almanac for peasants, dating from Each month is accompanied by a picture of a farmer doing the work best suited to that time of the year.

This accordion book, an 'exotic' form of codex, is in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. The expandable form allows a calendar of saints days to be compressed into a very small form. Creative Commons non-commercial licence. It's particularly unusual as slits cut in the sheet allow sections to be unfolded independently.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 17211, fol. 1r.showing a copyist making a transcription with the original on a lectern in front of him. Worth noting, the books in the case are stored with the cover out, not spine-out as in modern libraries.

THUCYDIDE, Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse, traduction française de Claude DE SEYSSEL. THUCYDIDE, Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse, traduction française de Claude DE SEYSSEL, volume 1

THUCYDIDE, Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse, traduction française de Claude DE SEYSSEL. THUCYDIDE, Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse, traduction française de Claude DE SEYSSEL, volume 1 -- 1501-1600 -- manuscrits