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More Digitised Music Manuscripts available online

19 June 2018 Music

We have the pleasure of bringing you some more highlights from our collection which we have digitised in high resolution and uploaded onto our website so anyone can enjoy them remotely. All the below are autograph, unless noted. Egerton MS...

Javanese manuscripts in the Sloane collection

19 June 2018 Asian and African studies

The British Museum was founded through t...

The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander

19 June 2018 Medieval manuscripts

The reign of Ivan Alexander (r. 1331–71) was a high point in the cultural history of Bulgaria, and the Tsar’s personalised copy of the Gospels translated into the Slavonic language is the most celebrated surviving example of Bulgarian medieval art....

Flag Day celebrates the new ‘Maatjes’.

18 June 2018 European studies

The famous ‘Maatjesharing’ is here again! Like the Scandinavians the Dutch celebrate the arrival of the first ‘Nieuwe’, or ‘virgin’ herring, in the month of June. The herring. Illustration by Ebenezer Albin from Roger North, A treatise on fish and...