Advent Calendar: 24 images from the Wren Digital Library

Day 1_Man warming his feet by the fire from a 13th-century Psalter (B.11.4, f.i verso)

Day 2_The Annunciation and Visitation from a 13th-century Psalter (B.11.5, f.7v)

Day 3_Illuminated initial with David playing bells from a 13th-century Bible (B.10.24_f349r)

Day 4_Detail of the city of Constantinople from a 17th-century Album (R.14.23, f.56r)

Day 5_Doves from a 13th-century Bestiary (R.14.9, f.94v)

Day 6_St Nicholas from a medieval Book of Hours (B.11.7, f.28r)

Day 7_Drawing from Athena, an Owlet from the Parthenon, written for Florence Nightingale (Crewe_Athena, p27)

Day 8_Clerks singing depicted in a 15th-century Psalter (O.7.46, f.87r)

Day 9_Shepherds and an angel from a 15th-century Book of Hours (B.11.19, f.55r)

Day 10_Detail from Kaladlit Assilialiait, woodcuts drawn and engraved by Greenlanders (Kaladlit no 9)

Day 11_Calendar for December from Liber Cosmographia (R.15.21, xiv verso – xv recto)

Day 12_The Adoration of the Magi from a 15th-century Missal (B.11.11, f.31v)

Day 13_Detail from the Trinity Carol Roll (O.3.58)

Day 14_St Martin giving half of his cloak to a beggar from a 16th-century Missal (R.17.22, f.207v)

Day 15_Starfish from La nature et diversité des poissons, a handcoloured book by Pierre Belon printed in 1555 (Crewe 1.6)

Day 16_Detail from the Trinity Apocalypse (R.16.2, f.5r)

Day 17_Killing a Hog from a Calendar in a 13th-century Book of Hours (B.11.31, f.12r)

Day 18_A goose from a 14th-century Herbarium (O.2.48, f. 265r)

Day 19_Feasting scene from the Life of Edward the Confessor (B.10.2, f.42v)

Day 20_Illuminated border with musicians from a Flemish Book of Hours (B.11.22, f.91v)

Day 21_Man covered with signs of the zodiac from a medieval Varia (R.15.18, f.18v)

Day 22_An angel from the border of a 15th-century Book of Hours (B.1.46, f.19r)

Day 23_Nativity from a 15th-century Book of Hours (B.11.32, f.131r)

Day 24_Note from the Sraffa Archive (Sraffa I126-1 recto)

Details

Day 1: B.11.4; Day 2: B.11.5; Day 3: B.10.24: Day 4: R.14.23; Day 5: R.14.9; Day 6: B.11.7; Day 7: Crewe_Athena; Day 8: O.7.46: Day 9: B.11.19; Day 10: Crewe_Kaladlit: Day 11 R.15.21; Day 12: B.11.11; Day 13: O.3.58: Day 14: R.17.22: Day 15: Crewe_1.4: Day 16: R.16.2: Day 17: B.11.31: Day 18: O.2.48: Day 19: B.10.2: Day 20: B.11.22: Day 21: R.15.18; Day 22: B.1.46; Day 23: B.11.32: Day 24: Sraffa