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Happy birthday to The Boy Who Lived! We're sending birthday wishes to Harry Potter via our two feathery friends from Audubon's beautiful 'Birds of America' http://ow.ly/LyLB50uQK5P
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Not your average musical score… This collection of sacred music complete with gold detail was compiled by a single scribe between about 1415-1421. It identifies a number of composers, including a 'Roy Henry', most likely to have been Henry V http://ow.ly/MSgw50u9yly
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This portable ‘writing box’ was given to Jane Austen by her father in 1794. First drafts of what would later become ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ could have been written on this very desk. Take a closer look: http://ow.ly/9zgb50unrxg
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Poet and artist William Blake started writing in this notebook around 1787. He continued to work in it for over 30 years. When he reached the last page, he turned it upside down and began working from the end on the back of each leaf. http://ow.ly/EqnE50qhRzA
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Signed by Shakespeare! We’re kicking off
#ShakespeareWeek with this incredible document containing one of only six known surviving signatures by the ‘Bard’. It’s a mortgage deed and is one of our#BLTreasures. http://ow.ly/HPYU50nt3Jr pic.twitter.com/6pnoZcZiof
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These letters record astronomical observations made by the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Here, he records sunspots which are dark areas of irregular shape seen periodically on the surface of the sun
#BLTreasures (That handwriting
) http://ow.ly/EOXn50kPguf pic.twitter.com/IYIor6gev4
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For those starry-eyed about a new hobby this
#newyear: the Dunhuang Chinese star chart is the earliest known map of the night sky. Produced in central China around 700CE, it shows over 1,300 stars visible to the naked eye http://bit.ly/2raet0f#BLTreasures pic.twitter.com/RK8AOTXsc0
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The largest, most lavishly decorated English service book to survive from the Middle Ages? Take a look to decide for yourself. Among the deluxe illuminations in the Sherborne Missal are no less than 44 highly naturalistic depictions of birds http://bit.ly/2S2AIAP
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This seven-volume Qur'an was made in Cairo for the Mamluk Sultan Baybars. The manuscript is handwritten in gold and each volume features a frontispiece of intricate geometric patterns with ornamental script. It took about two years to complete http://bit.ly/2TQLj3n
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William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament was the first to be printed in English. This is one of only three copies surviving from the 3,000 or so printed in 1526 by Peter Schoeffer in Worms, Germany. Explore this item with
#BLTreasures http://bit.ly/2CFaccr pic.twitter.com/9bnjvjTNYM
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The poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' begins when a Christmas feast at Camelot is interrupted by a mysterious green knight riding a green horse. This masterpiece of Middle English literature survives solely in this single manuscript http://ow.ly/WRSs50jr4Gm
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In this letter to Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace proposes a calculation that may be worked out by an engine rather than a human – it’s the first time the idea of a computer programme had been set out in writing. See it in
#BLTreasures http://bit.ly/2OyDCvT#AdaLovelaceDay pic.twitter.com/JVJEYnpgZE
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Photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot died
#onthisday in 1877. His negative-positive process was to form the basis of almost all photography on paper until the advent of the digital age. http://bit.ly/2xhSOqk#BLTreasures pic.twitter.com/lxZqMQcisb
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The splendidly illuminated Lisbon Bible includes all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. Samuel the Scribe copied the biblical text in an elegant square script while the sumptuous decorations were created by a team of skilled artists http://bit.ly/2MKN1iR
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This Japanese map from the 1800s combines an image of the World as interpreted by Buddhists with European cartography. It depicts the habitable world as a Jambudvîpa or island of the terrestrial realm. Navigate both worlds in
#BLTreasures http://bit.ly/2PuYlS0 pic.twitter.com/FtDIYrXYPu
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The Library holds over 150 million items, which six would you pick to capture your life, career and passions? We’re delighted that Treasures Of The British Library will be returning to
@SkyArts for season two this autumn. Tune in from 11 September#BLTreasures pic.twitter.com/nzlgD90AiBTreasures Of The British LibrarySeason Two returns to Sky Arts from 11 September 2018 -
The Perseids meteor shower will be at its peak on Sunday night. For all you stargazers, this c. 1700 pocket globe depicts the 12 zodiac constellations. It’s housed in a case with charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and singer Constanze Weber signed their marriage certificate
#onthisday in 1782. It may be music to your ears to hear that it’s on display in our#BLTreasures Gallery http://bit.ly/2v7FK66 pic.twitter.com/TZwyq9M3nW
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Jane Austen’s father gave her this portable writing-box in 1794. Between 1795-1799 Austen wrote first drafts of what would become Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice and Northanger Abbey, perhaps using this very desk http://bit.ly/2JFfpFO
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Happy 200th birthday to Emily Brontë! She and her sister Anne, invented their own imaginary world called Gondal and Emily copied out 45 poems relating to Gondal in this notebook which can be seen in our
#BLTreasures Gallery http://bit.ly/2M15Tts#Bronte200#Emily200pic.twitter.com/jaOwP6Y4mo
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