Serbian Manuscripts

The Balkan Slavs were inheritors of Byzantium culture, but Oriental and Scandinavian influences are also important in their creations. The cyrillic script (and its antecedents) provides the basic written units for a dozen or more related languages. Even though in modern-day Serbia latin letters are used, in the past cyrillic script was the norm in theContinue reading “Serbian Manuscripts”

Horses of Nepal Book

The Royal Library of Denmark has a book catalogued as “Illustrated work with horses from Nepal”.  The book is mysterious in nature, given that the Library’s website does not feature any background information on it. However, it does seem to be a copy or a derivate work of “A Treatise on the Nature and IllnessesContinue reading “Horses of Nepal Book”