An image of a folio from a medieval manuscript. A micrographic horse can be seen in the bottom left.

An image of the facing folio from the medieval manuscript.

Our micrographic dragon appears on folio 19r, alongside Genesis 1:24–25 on God's creation of the land animals. More examples of micrographic creatures abound through the manuscript -- take a look at its digitized reproduction on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts webpage to see more!

A close up view of a geometric design done in Hebrew micrography.

This is a 13th/14th c manuscript of the Hebrew Bible containing multiple examples of micrography: an art form creating representational or abstract designs from miniature Hebrew letters. This was a distinctive technique created by Hebrew scribes in medieval Christian Europe and the Islamicate world.

An close-up view of a micrographic dragon, drawn in Hebrew characters on the folio of a medieval manuscript.

Today we're highlighting the source of our little draconic logo: folio 19r of the codex British Library, Add MS 21160. www.bl.uk/manuscripts/...
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