Stories
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Writing the language of music
The earliest surviving attempts to notate music date from the 10th century, and became increasingly precise and complex over the following millennium. Discover the visual beauty of music manuscripts through the ages, and how they help musicians interpret composers’ intentions.
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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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You, a thousand years ago
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
Catalogue
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Bronze figure showing a facial tumour, 10th century
- Archives and manuscripts
M0007719: 10th century drawing of the muscles of the eye
Date: 17 March 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/66/54Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Chapter 2: Status of physicians at the 10th century Welsh Court
Date: c. 1929Reference: MS.8237Part of: Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)- Books
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On the 10th of June. 1713.
Date: 1713]- Books
Drawings and pharmacy in al-Zahrāwī's 10th-century surgical treatise / [Sami Khalaf Hamarneh].
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 1925-2010.Date: [1961]