#Micrography
Micrography dragon in the margin

BL Add 21160; 'the Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.102r
February 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Micrography in action

Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.318r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Exquisite use of micrography to decorate the initial-word panel of Job.
#Micrography
BnF MS Hébreu 6; Prophets and Writings; 1298 CE; f.267v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The four creatures of Ezekiel's vision in micrography

BL Add 21160; 'Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.285r
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Gathering fruit
#Micrography
BnF MS Hébreu 5; Torah; 1298 CE; f.118v
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The glory of micrography

BnF Hébreu 10; Bible. A.T. Hagiography; 1304 CE; f.85v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
March 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Micrography in ambiguity: cat or bird?

BnF Hébreu 36; Bible (hébreu); 1300 CE; Poligny (France);f.81r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Early stage development mosquito larva
#microscopy #micrography #biology
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Micrography in action
#MicrographyMonday
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.318r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
February 6, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Song of Songs in Hebrew micrography depicting Solomon, 1819. Codex Levy 45, Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library, Hamburg.
July 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
In the margin next to where God instructs Noach to build an ark, there has been drawn a lovely ark. Note also the micrography images of fish and a dragon in the upper and lower margins.
#Micrography
BnF MS Hébreu 20. Bible (תנ"ך); 1301 CE; Tudèle (Spain); f.13r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
micrography/microcalligraphy/whatever it is 😍
YAY for new acquisitions!! 📜
First up: A four volume Pentateuch from Yemen 1679. Check out those micrographic carpet pages @stewartbrookes.bsky.social!
January 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Beautiful use of micrography around the initial-word of Shemot (שְׁמוֹת), & a hunting scene in the lower margin
#Micrography
Bodleian Library MS. Canonici Or. 137; Torah with Targum Onḳelos and Hafṭarot; 1275 CE- 1325 CE; f.70v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Some beautiful micrography for an overly hot day🥵

BL Oriental 2628; the 'Lisbon Bible' Vol 3, the Hagiographa with masorah magna & parva; Portugal, Central (Lisbon); 15th century; f.185r @blmedieval.bsky.social
May 26, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Some more micrography for #theweekend

Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible', 1476 CE, La Coruña, Spain; ff.317v, 318r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Sodium chloride, magnified 60 times (1887–88) by Marinus Pieter Filbri.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8803d5f9-5e3a-45f2-bc93-eddc18c2813c

#micrography #micrographia #photo-micrography #crystals #art #publicdomain
July 30, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Some beautiful micrography and penwork for #theweekend

BL Oriental 2628; the 'Lisbon Bible' Vol 3, the Hagiographa with masorah magna & parva; Portugal, Central (Lisbon); 15th century; f.185r
December 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
FBI swat teams raiding micrography hobbyists’ homes as we speak
September 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Unexpected encounter with a star yesterday: the extraordinary beauty of the Rothschild Pentateuch
February 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The knight and the dragon in the margin
#micrography
BL Add 21160; 'Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.192v
September 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Flowers for Fascists (poisonous plants, toxicological paper in micrography) (zoom in!) #artivism #micrography #antifascist #art #watercolor #activism. The flowers depicted are all toxic.
September 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Diatom, Heliopelta Metii (1909) by Arthur E Smith, from Nature Through Microscope and Camera.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1ac971f4-b746-469a-8c19-d5cfdcfac79c

#diatoms #micrography #microscopes #magnification #photo-micrography #patterns
July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Some micrography on which the mind can meditate.

Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.318r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
May 26, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Drop III (1851) by Agnes Catlow, A. Achilles, from Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants Displayed by the Microscope.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74a825c1-280c-40ed-9958-b0df73c7d08a

#micrography #microscopes
September 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM