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The Morgan Library and Museum

The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World

Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, Traponee (Sri Lanka) in the Book of the Marvels of the World, c. 1460-65, France, Angers. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum. MS 124. fol. 32r.

Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, Arabia, in the Book of Marvels of the World, c. 1460, France, Angers, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.461, fol. 10r.

Worksop Bestiary, c. 1185, England, Lincoln (?). Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 51v.

Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), The Book of Nature. Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. Morgan Library & Museum, PML 136

Hanns Rüst, Map of the World. Germany, Augsburg, ca. 1480. Morgan Library & Museum, PML 19921

Conjoined Twins, in Abridged Divine Histories. France, Amiens, ca. 1300. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.751, fol. 52v.

Abridged Divine Histories. France, Amiens, ca. 1300. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.751, fol. 53r.

Worksop Bestiary. England, Lincoln (?), ca. 1185. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 52r.

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Seven Sisters Round Barrow

Copt Hill, Tyne and Wear. UK

Neolithic burial mound.

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Happy Towel Day to all those who celebrate

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The crow knows.

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Just the boys chilling out

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Next on 'Beauty of winter' week is a very snowy Nine Maiden's stone circle...

After sunrise on the Tor, Gary had a tough hour walking through deep snow & got to the ancient stones just as a heavy snow shower came through....

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📸 by @garyholpinphoto

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hey man i think it's dead

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Robin Hood meets Little John

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flowery tea ♡

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i could use a hamburger

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Yeah, it doesn't wnd well for the bird or the mouse either... got to love the Grimm Tales :)

This is one of my favs. It's up there with the The Straw, the Coal and, the Bean.

An excerpt from the folktale "The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage":

The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day. But the sausage remained so long away, that they became uneasy, and the bird flew out to meet him.

He had not flown far, however, when he came across a dog who, having met the sausage, had regarded him as his legitimate booty, and so seized and swallowed him. The bird complained to the dog of this bare-faced robbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited.

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