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One day to go and not one, but two, Christmas trees from Denny Library!
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Day 4 of #Treemas Here's a trio of photos of #Grangemouth's lovely tree.
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Starting the week with #Boness Library's beautiful tree. 🤩
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Day 2 of #Treemas! Do not adjust your screen, these are not giant #Bookbugs, they're just frollicking under the lovely little tree in our littlest library. 😊 #SmallButPerfectlyFormed
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A very Happy Christmas to everyone! Here's a beautiful hand coloured woodcut from a French Book of Hours, printed on vellum in 1503.
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Day 25 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
Glad tidings of great joy, that unto to us a child is born.
And so Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day - Happy Christmas everyone!
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Day 24 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
For Christmas Eve, the Gospel of St Matthew from our C11th St Calais Bible. This is one of 56 beautifully decorated initials, all the work of a single artist.
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Day 23 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
For the 4th Sunday of #Advent, the music of Orlando Gibbons, from one of our rare early C17th @durhamcathchoir part books.
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Day 22 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
The oldest known Christmas hymns date back to the C4th. Come & join the singing at @durhamcathedral this Christmas with our Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols services today.
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Day 21 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
What are your favourite sweet treats at Christmas? Here's a recipe for chocolate almonds for Christmas feasting from ‘The Art of Cookery’ by John Thacker, cook to the Dean & Chapter of @durhamcathedral, 1739 - 1758.
#rarebooks #christmasfood
Day 20 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
Wise men came from the East.
This hand-coloured map of Biblical 'Paradise' appears in Gerard Mercator's 'Atlas Minor', 1607. Mercator was the first cartographer to use the word Atlas for a collection of maps. #rarebooks #cartography
Day 19 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
Are you going to see a Pantomime this Christmas? The musical comedy of the modern British pantomime has its origins in C17th & C18th music hall. Popular theatre music was often published, like this volume from 1698-1700. #rarebooks #earlymusic
Day 18 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
According to popular legend, the first Englishman to have turkey for his Christmas dinner was Henry VIII. This magnificent bird appears in Albin's 'A Natural History of #Birds' (1738-40).
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Day 17 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.
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Day 16 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
An exhausted new mother. An anxious new father. And a grumpy donkey.
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Day 15 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
First performed in April 1742, Handel's #Messiah has become a Christmas favourite.
Come & hear @durhamcathchoir & @AvisonEnsemble perform Handel's great work in @durhamcathedral tonight: https://t.co/tfxaavGdRC #earlymusic #rarebooks
Day 14 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
For our North American followers, a #NewEngland partridge from Albin's 'A Natural History of #Birds' (1738-40). The Christmas song #twelvedaysofchristmas was first published in England in 1780 without music as a chant or rhyme. #rarebooks
Day 13 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
Only 5 hymnal #manuscripts survive from #AngloSaxon England, & this is one. Here's a Latin hymn (Iesus refulsit - Jesus shines), with Anglo-Saxon gloss, & the music noted with neumes (vertical marks).
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Day 12 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
A nativity scene from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. This first edition was the first prayer book to include the complete forms of service for daily & Sunday worship in English.
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Day 11 #LibraryChristmasCountdown
A #reindeer & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?
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