.أهلاً وسهلاً

Albarran Cabrera - The Indestructible

by Francois Halard

Women of Jaipur, 1957

I quickly snapped this picture whenever I was in the Old City in Jerusalem on one of my last days there. Its been over a year, but I recalled this picture whenever browsing through a lot of the manuscripts and calligraphy I post on this blog. For some reason the simple gesture of such a simple stencil inside of an arch in the Old City speaks to how simple remembrance is just as beautiful and significant. There are many things like it, but in a city full of beautiful monuments to God, this was a very concise message that stood out to me.

Ramadan Mubarak.

Le Marais, Paris - seen through stained glass

Detail of a miniature of a battle with archers and riders in armour, at the beginning of book 7, by the Master of the London Wavrin, from Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar), France (Lille) and Netherlands (Bruges), 1473-1476.

Chez Lunn 1,2, 2015

Phases de l’éclipse du 30 août 1905 [mission Andoyer]

An 18th century Nativity scene, the work of an illustrator from Aleppo and a scribe from Cairo.

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