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some of my favorite animal miniatures from nypl spencer coll. pers. ms. 49, a 16th century copy of zakariya al-qazwini's 13th century the wonders of creatures and the marvels of creation.

annie steg gerard

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, Memoirs of Martynov

Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight (1862 / edited) - Frederik Marinus Kruseman

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1: (1931-1934)

Warwick, England

by n4ny4r

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry wr. c. June 1925, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III: 1925-1930

Credit…Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

A Man embracing a Woman, Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Luteri), ca. 1525 (detail)

late summer charm

Watercolor illustration from The Bells and other poems - Edmund Dulac - 1912 - via Sotheby's