Illuminated Manuscripts Postcard Pack
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This postcard pack contains 16 postcards featuring images and details from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library collection.
Postcards include:
- ‘Generosity in Charity’ from the Vessantara Jataka
- Detail from the ‘Welles Apocalypse’
- A view of London with the Tower of London in the foreground from a copy of the poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans
- Page from a Book of Hours
- ‘Rescue of Prince Janaka’ from the Mahajanaka Jataka
- Image from Petit Livre d'Amour
- Image of Imagination introducing the knight to the three Virtues, from Imaginacion de vraye noblesse
- Image of Astronomers on Mt. Athos, from Sir John Mandeville's Travels
- Image of the fairy Mélusine transformed into a dragon, flies away from Lusignan castle from Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine
- Image of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, from the Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria
- Beginning of the Gospel of St Matthew, from the Harley Golden Gospels
- Illustration from a Thai folding book containing extracts from the Tipitaka
- Image of the Transfiguration and the Last Supper, from The Floreffe Bible
- Noah's Ark, from Old English Illustrated Hexateuch
- City of Babylon, from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book
- Image of the building of the Tower of Babel, from the Bedford Hours
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