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Harley 3954, f. 14r, invites the reader to be a spectator and participant in the Angel’s annunciation to the shepherds; the shepherds’ backs, foregrounded and turned to the reader, situate the reader within that congregation.

Harley 3954, f. 13v, depicts the pilgrim, in an attitude of devotion, in the presence of Mary and Jesus in Bethlehem.

The marvellous races included here are cyclops (one-eyed giants); cannibalistic giants; and blemmyae (people who have no heads, and whose eyes, noses, and mouths appear on their chests).

Cynocephales are dog-headed people.

Sciopods are people who have only one leg and foot, so large that it can shade them from the sun.

The Amazons are a nation of “noble and wise” warrior women who, according to Mandeville, do not permit men to rule their kingdom or even live among them for longer than seven days.

Sir John Mandeville watches a griffin carry away an armed knight and his horse, Harley 3954 f. 54v

Sir John Mandeville, travelling, contemplates the geography of the way to Jerusalem (Danube), Harley 3954 f2

Sir John Mandeville sets off on his travels to Jerusalem and beyond, Harley 3954 f2. In the margin, the red subtitle just under the picture reads "Who mad this bok" ("who made this book").

British Library Ms. Harley 3954, created in England, in East Anglia, in the second quarter of the fifteenth century (British Library Catalogue entry, Harley 3954, Detailed Record). The Book of John Mandeville that appears in this manuscript is in…

"Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with David harping, miniature of the Virgin and Child in the lower margin, with a monkey and owl above and various hybrid creatures and human figures in the borders, at the beginning of Psalm 1. " (British Library…

Intellectual Content: Graphesis is a scholarly study of ways that our culture represents information through visual representations and understands (or takes in) information through visual representations. Graphesis traces a history of…

A lesson on metadata for Omeka collections. By the end of this lesson, participants will understand:what metadata means what Dublin Core means how to describe books, pages, photographs using basic Dublin Core how to interpret Dublin Core for the…

A case study of Omeka/Neatline pedagogy in the literary studies classroom. This item describes an assignment in which students are invited to use Omeka and Neatline in order to analyze the intertextual relationships between and within the works of…

A framed miniature of John, seated with an open book and the thunders above him; angels with scrolls to his right and left speak to him and in the centre, a tall angel stands with one foot in the water and a rainbow over his head, holding an open…

A framed miniature from the Commentary: three men with swords kill three clerics and their souls rise up as birds; on the right a king watches, smiling and holding a sword. On the left in a spired building Christ is a quatrefoil looks down on an…

A framed miniature of an angel with a trumpet and four smaller angels standing in water (the Euphrates); an angel above emerges from a cloud, holding a scroll and Christ is in a mandorla blessing a chalice. 

A framed miniature of an angel blowing a trumpet and three winged horses with kings' heads and insects beneath.

A framed miniature of two angels, one emptying fire from a censer on an altar with the thunders above and the other angel blowing a trumpet, with fire falling to earth from above. 

A framed miniature with John outside the frame and a group of angels receiving a trumpet from another angel on the left and an angel holding a gold incense bearer on the right. In the middle is Christ enthroned in a mandorla.