Advertisement for a new and anonymously-published novel called 'Pride and Prejudice' 🎩 🏛️ Competing titles include an edition of Aesop's fables & a handbook for dissecting human bodies 🖋️🐇🫀 (Morning Post, 28 Jan 1813)
Satirical medal on the birth of the Prince of Wales (1688). Obverse: Aglauros discovering dragon-tailed Erichthonius in a basket on a mound with roses and thistles, while two women run away in fright.
Doesn't appear to be very heavy on Middle English (when, oh, when will my beloved Harley 2251 and 2255 return??) but still-- this is really heartening: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
Following the cyber-attack on the British Library last year, staff have been working behind the scenes to restore access to the Library’s digitised manuscripts. The Library has now made an initial bat...
Top student complaint: ‘wheras the statute permittethe not small birdes to be kept in the Colledge for troubling the studentes, the Master hathe vsed continuall & excessive loud singing, & noyse of Organs to the great disturbaunce of our studdyes’ (BL, Lansdowne MS 33; re: Gonville & Caius, 1582)
Tycho Brahe had arranged for his nephew, Albret, to study in Padua in 1590, and Albret's brother Jørgen (or Georg), who owned this copy of Parabosco's Lettere amorose (perhaps a souvenir of his studies abroad?), followed in his footsteps shortly thereafter.
Meet the 'Dog-Birds' of The Travels and Adventures of William Bingfield, Esq. (1753), the strangest apex predators we've ever seen ... capable of taking down tigers and stags alike, they have the tail of a pig, sharp teeth, shaggy hair, and a bird's talons.
17th-century swivel locket ring commemorating the marriage of King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France in 1625, part of Jonest Collection of Rings & to be on display in October ... 💍 forbes.com/sites/anthon...
