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A collage of pages, texts, illustrations, photographs and thoughts relating to rainbows from the collections found in Cambridge Digital Library.
A small painting of a Japanese silver and enamel plate, with decorative floral border and central scene featuring two ducks swimming, that forms part of a descriptive catalogue entry alongside hand written details of the object.
An image of the edge of a medieval manuscript page with a decorative red, blue and gold scrolling leafy vine-like border. Inside the border, an ape looks up to the text whilst a blond figure wearing a red robe faces out of the page holding two toasting forks that each end with a speared golden, crumpet-like disc.
The Khami Atlas of the World is an atlas of the entire world drawn and painted entirely by hand in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents. https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS-MS-PLANS-B-00041/1
Winds blow and waves crash - how would you interpret the signs? https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-00020-00038/13
Five skeletons dancing from their graves - a scene depicting the Danse Macabre from the Nuremberg Chronicle.
Diagrams showing Newton's observations of the comet of 1682.
"God of Love shoots arrow at Lover" - an illuminated miniature from Le Roman de la Rose (CUL MS Gg.4.6), an allegorical love poem written in Old French.
A sketch of the sun with a face - part of an astrological diagram of an eclipse.
Rotating diagram (volvelle) with three parchment disks organised concentrically on top of each other and fastened to the page; the second and third one have hands in blue and pink with drawings of, respectively, the sun and moon on them in gold and silver; a circular opening on the third (upper) disk reveals a silver layer on the surface that it covers on the disk underneath.
A collage of digitised collections containing poetry from the University of Cambridge's Digital Library https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Medical texts (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 181/214) An unidentified alchemical text with diagrams.
David Jones' Quia per Incarnati - a painted poem