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Dr Alison Ray

@liber_ray

6 years

Ssssnakes on a plane! 🐍🐍✈️ #medievaltwitter

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Dr Alison Ray

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2 years

A view of the @bodleianlibs Radcliffe Camera in this evening’s fog 🌫

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Stay Spooky! For #FridayThe13th here are some friendly bats (vespertilio) in the margins of a 13th-century fortune-telling tract, now @bodleianlibs MS. Ashmole 304, f. 47v 📜🦇

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Ｗ 𝗜 𝗦 𝗘 𝗖 𝗢 𝗡 𝗡 𝗘 𝗖 𝗧 𝗢 𝗥 ™ 💬

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What would you do with this space?

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This reminds me of the brilliant monk fish I saw recently in a 13th-century Bestiary, now @bodleianlibs MS. 533, f. 26r! 🐟

weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!

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cat fish, iran, 16th century

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Apparently I’ve been in Oxford for 2 years! Here’s a lovely 12th-century rainbow to celebrate from @bodleianlibs MS. Bodl. 614, f. 35r 🤗🌈📜🎉

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She’s everything. He’s just Dante.

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I’m so thrilled to share that on Monday I will be starting a permanent role as Archivist and Records Manager at @SPC_Oxford ! I can’t wait to work with my fantastic college and university colleagues! 🎉

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Happy #WorldGothDay everyone! Here are some smiley bats doodled in the margins of a 13th-century collection of prognostic texts copied by Matthew Paris 🦇 @bodleianlibs MS Ashmole 304, f. 47v

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The government, planning to destroy millions of original records because they think digitisation is a magic wand:

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Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access. Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say:

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Very disappointed to see the creation of the incredible Book of Kells mocked in such a manner in the Guardian today, including this misrepresentation of St John holding his Gospel-book used to imply the monks were ‘drunk’ and ‘slack’ rather than skilled artists and scribes! 📜✍️

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Like a bat into Hell! In tribute to Meat Loaf, here's a gorgeous marginal drawing of a bat-like Hell-mouth devouring souls, from @BLMedieval Harley MS 3999, f. 21r 🦇🔥

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A 14th-cent manuscript copy of Les Grandes chroniques de France shows Louis IX receiving the Crown of Thorns and other relics from Constantinople (BL Royal MS 16 G IV, f. 395r). So heartening to hear that historic objects such as this have reportedly been saved! #NotreDame

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Happy #BatAppreciationDay ! The medieval bestiary tells us that bats are not noble birds, they prefer to fly at dusk, hang from high places like a bunch of grapes, and their voice is like a mouse squeak 🦇🖤 The 13th-cent. Ashmole Bestiary, @bodleianlibs MS. Ashmole 1511, f. 63r

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The cutest library just dropped @bodleianlibs 🥹📖❤️

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Once in a blue moon over Oxford tonight 🌕✨

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By the age of 30, you should have experienced a series of divine revelations, become an anchoress, and recorded your visions as the earliest known text in the English language by a woman. Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love, @BLMedieval Add MS 37790, f. 97r

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Guys please don't outbid me

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Starting a Zoom meeting vs Finishing a Zoom meeting

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Til death do us part? Anne Boleyn allegedly gave this girdle book of the Psalms featuring a portrait of Henry VIII to her companion Margaret Wyatt while on the scaffold before her execution in 1536. Stowe MS 956, ff. 1v-2,

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Being asked for the 1,000th time why you’re not wearing white gloves to handle collections

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The only X that I like! The gorgeous Chi-rho page from the Lindisfarne Gospels is formed with the letters ‘X-P-I’ to represent the abbreviated name of Christ in Greek 📜❎ @BLMedieval Cotton MS Nero D IV, f. 29r

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It was when I was explaining the medieval depiction of the side wound of Christ to my hairdresser, that I realised I may be a massive nerd 😂📜 From a 14th-century prayer book, now in the Met Cloisters Collection, 1969 (69.86), f. 331r

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Stellar views! Christine de Pizan and the Sibyl exploring the cosmos in the early 15th-century Book of the Queen ( @BLMedieval Harley MS 4431, f. 189v) in comparison with the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope released by @NASA 💫 #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope

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Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose: A red rose is surrounded by couplets with music inscribed on two circular staves, in a choirbook produced in 1516 by Petrus de Opitiis of Antwerp for King Henry VIII Royal MS 11 E XI, f. 3r

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Today is the feast day of St Gobnait, medieval Irish patron saint of bees and beekeeping! 🐝 To celebrate, here’s the stunning 1916 Harry Clarke window portrait the saint, her holy well in Kerry, and a bee hive from a 13th-century Bestiary ( @bodleianlibs MS 764, f. 89r)

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nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: -the one time you accidentally opened a portal to hell

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#BlueMonday is a great excuse to admire the incredible colours of the Black Hours, a manuscript produced in Bruges c. 1470 for the use of Rome and illuminated on vellum painted black! 📜💙 Opening with the Virgin and Child & Mass of the Virgin @MorganLibrary M.493, ff22v-23r

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To mark the winter solstice, here’s a fantastic diagram explaining solar and lunar time from a 12th-century computistical miscellany compiled at Thorney Abbey! 🌞🌖 @StJohnsOxLib MS. 17, f. 35v

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2020 - Medieval Edition™️

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Got to visit the Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona, a 1500 year-old library with the oldest known copy of De Civitate Dei (top right) dated to the early 5th century - written when St Augustine was possibly still alive! 🤯📜

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4 years

I’m pleased to share I have joined the fantastic @TCDResearchColl team as Carnegie Project Archivist! For the next 12 months I’ll be working with the medieval manuscript collections as part of the new Virtual Trinity Library Programme 📜🎉

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Musical cats through the ages! A cat plays the fiddle in the margins of a 14th-century Book of Hours @BLMedieval Harley MS 6563 f. 40r, as Barry the cat explores my housemates’ record collection 🐈‍⬛🎶

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To celebrate receiving my first vaccine dose, here are my favourite depictions of medical procedures, accompanied by scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary and Christ in Majesty, from the Chirurgia of Roger Frugardi of Salerno @BLMedieval Sloane MS 1977, f. 9v #ThankYouHSE 💉

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1 year

Really fun to see the otherworldly north door of St Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, the rumoured inspiration for the Doors of Durin in Lord of the Rings! 🧙‍♂️

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2 years

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful! ⛄️ As the temperature drops, I'm enjoying this cosy scene of a man warming his feet by the fire surrounded by delicious treats, from a late 13th-century Psalter calendar, now @bodleianlibs MS Add A 46, f. 1r 🔥

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Happy #WorldBookDay ! I love this fun image of a medieval book club with a human and his animal friends from the margins of a French copy of the Romance of Alexander, now @bodleianlibs MS. Bodl. 264, f. 96r 📚🐱🐵

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I'm blue da ba dee da ba di! For #BlueMonday here's a gorgeous blue sky surrounding God the Creator, but look closely- the sky is actually made up of swirling winged angels 📜💙 From a 15th-century Bible historiale produced in France, @BLMedieval Royal MS 19 D III, f. 3r

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‘I hope this email finds you well!’ 😇 How this email finds me 😈🔥 Souls tormented in a fabulous Hell-mouth from a late 14th/early 15th-cent Apocalypse ( @BLMedieval Add MS 38121, f. 42v)

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Went to visit the amazing @bodleianlibs Chaucer exhibition again and love these wonderful images of medieval women readers on display! 📖

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How do you judge a book without a cover? I had fun with this @bodleianlibs 14th-century canon law collection yesterday! 📖

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Take a look at those leaves! 🍂 To mark the #AutumnEquinox I’m enjoying this 14th-century image of a little nun getting a boost from a monk to admire the vine leaf decoration of the page border 📜🍁 @bodleianlibs MS. Bodl. 264, f. 98v

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Having an amazing birthday in Prague with the medieval astronomy clock! ⏰🎉

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A fantastic display on ‘Knights Errant’ at @ChCh_Oxford Library and I am now obsessed with this 14th-cent illuminated copy of William of Milmete’s work on nobility with a chemise binding and filled with knights, wodewoses and grotesques galore! 😍📜⚔️

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2 years

I had so much fun today visiting @HFDCathedral to see the amazing chained library and mappa mundi! Dated c. 1300, the Hereford mappa mundi is the largest medieval map surviving today (130cm in diameter) 🌎📜

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3 years

I no longer feel guilty about the 340 tabs open on my phone after seeing the tabs of this King James Bible owned by 17th-cent philologist and rector of Lincoln Thomas Marshall! This was part of a fantastic display @lincolllib curated by student Matilda Houston-Brown 📖

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6 years

You've Got Mail! A hare messenger is on his speedy way to deliver a sealed message, while carrying a spear and messenger bag. But he first must pass en route Reynard the Fox, dressed as a pilgrim. From the Smithfield Decretals (Royal MS 10 E IV, f 53v)

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You're so vain, you probably think this manuscript is about you! Narcissus admires his own reflection in this C14th French copy of Roman de la Rose. Royal MS 20 A XVII, f.14v

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A fantastic first church crawl of the year to revisit St Mary’s Church, Chalgrove with gorgeous medieval wall paintings and a squint! 🎨🎉

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Just like honey: a #medieval Winnie the Pooh appears in a C15th Italian manuscript, Harley MS 3448 f. 10v

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Please judge this book by its cover! This C16th MS contains accounts of the Norman noblemen who travelled to England with William the Conqueror. The leather cover features painted hunting scenes + the motto of Charles IX of France. Egerton MS 2388

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Taylor Swift Eras as Medieval Manuscripts Shimmering Lover era bodysuit as a musical mermaid playing the harp 🧜‍♀️ ( @MorganLibrary MS M.459 fol. 8r)

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So thrilling today to visit the 14th-century Doom painting of St Nicholas Church, Oddington! Covering almost half of the nave’s north wall, this is one of the largest surviving medieval depictions of the Last Judgement in England 😇😈

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The autumn leaves are falling at @No1Cathedral + the raking outside is like the October page in the calendar of the 15th-cent Bedford Hours, showing Earth personified taking off her ornaments with leaves falling as she cuts her hair! ( @BLMedieval Add MS 18850, f. 10v)

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Please wear white gloves when handling collections 📜🧤🆘

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A fantastic guided tour of @MertonCollege today, the absolute highlight being the historic @mertonlib Upper Library- the oldest academic library in the world still in continuous daily use! 📖🎉

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Let your conscience be your guide! A #medieval Jiminy Cricket appears in the margins of Cocharelli's treatise on virtues and vices c1330. Add MS 28841, f. 5v

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Before and After! The same initial 'M' depicting the archangel St Michael slaying the dragon appears in two different 12th-cent texts made in Canterbury, one outlined and one in colour, from a Gospel book (BL, Royal MS 1 B XI, f. 6r) and a Passionale (Arundel MS 91, f. 26v)

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1 scroll = 2.5 Alison’s 📏 It’s difficult to tell the scale of items from digital images, so I’m delighted to show how long the 15th-century alchemical Ripley Scroll ( @bodleianlibraries MS. Bodl. Rolls 1) actually is! 😂📜 #manuscriptmonday

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How did Canterbury monks wash their hands? An 11th cent set of monastic rules tell us as a silent order they used sign language to request water and soap! @BLMedieval Cotton Tiberius A III f. 100v says rub your hands together for soap: #WashYourHands 🧼👏

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Take cover, it’s raining mermaids and sea monsters out there! ☔️ From a 15th-century French text on the Last Judgement, now @bodleianlibs MS. Douce 134, f. 42v

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Happy Easter! Here’s a fun rosette of hares from a late 12th-century Psalter commentary by Peter Lombard made in France 🐰 @bodleianlibs MS. Auct. D. 2. 8, f. 115r

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I was as excited as this little dragon to have research #FridayFun in the wonderful @bodleianlibs reading rooms today! 📚

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A fascinating diagram of the cycle of the 7 medieval planets including the sun and moon relating to days of the week with the Virgin and Child at its centre, from a 13-14th century medical and astronomical miscellany 🪐🗓 @TCDResearchColl MS 367, f. 63v

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My job is just manuscript! Late 11th-century monk Hugo Pictor depicted himself as both scribe and illuminator in this fantastic self-portrait in a copy of St Jerome’s commentary on Isaiah produced at Jumièges, now @bodleianlibs MS Bodley 717, f. 287v 📜

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Cancelling plans is ok. Leaving your Wilton convent in 1080 without telling anyone is ok. Moving to Angers, France to become an anchoress is ok. Living your life in seclusion under the guidance of a male hermit named Hervé is ok, do what you need to do to cope.

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I see a blood moon rising! Diagram + drawings of the positions and phases of the moon including a lunar eclipse in this C11th copy of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies made in Canterbury #BloodMoon Royal MS 6 C I, f. 30r

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Pleased to hear I’m now a Qualified Archivist™️! So grateful to the amazing teaching and support staff of @InfoStudiesAber for their great work, I’m leaping for joy like this dancing lady in the 14th-cent Maastricht Hours, BL Stowe MS 17, f. 38r #aber2020

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Just batty! In honour of #TheBatman movie, here’s a fantastic depiction of a bat in the margins of the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, @BLMedieval Add MS 42120, f. 164r 🦇

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Total Eclipse of the Sun! We may not be able to see the show today in the UK, but we can enjoy this amazing 13th-century diagram of an eclipse from a Latin copy of De motibus planetarum by Alfraganus, now @bodleianlibs MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

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Happy #InternationalCatDay ! I love this nuntastic scene of a cat helping to spin thread from the 14th-century Maastricht Hours, @BLMedieval Stowe MS 17, f. 34r 📜🐱

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Ladies, if he: - doesn't text you back - has monks kneeling at his feet - is chaste, obedient & humble - is illuminated by Eadwig Basan He's not your man. He's St Benedict of Nursia depicted in the C11th Eadui Psalter #BLAngloSaxons

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Cooking up a manuscript! This late medieval copy of John Cassian’s works contains added recipes for making gold lettering, parchment and ink 👨‍🍳📜 @bodleianlibs MS. Laud Misc. 186 will soon be digitised with the Mainz Charterhouse Manuscripts project:

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Battling hayfever? During allergy season that’s how I’m interpreting this fun image of a figure pointing a crossbow at a plant in a late medieval Herbal treatise composed by Giovanni Cadamosto 🏹🌸 @BLMedieval Harley MS 3736, f. 50v

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A whole new world! A teacher shows a shining, shimmering splendid globe to a student in this C15th French copy of Bartholomew the Englishman's On the Properties of Things Royal MS 17 E III, f. 136v

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Medieval Dune! Here are two fantastic worms (Latin: vermis) from the mid 14th-century Middle Dutch bestiary Der Naturen Bloeme of Jacob van Maerlant, now @KB_Nederland KB, KA 16, f. 136r 📜🪱

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Happy #MayDay 🌿 Celebrating by admiring the fantastic Green Man drawings from the 13th-century sketchbook of designer Villard de Honnecourt! @laBnF Français 19093, f. 5v

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Fantastic news: our work on the @bodleianlibs 'Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse' project is now complete with 94 manuscripts fully digitised and available to view on the Digital Bodleian site! 🥳📜 Check out the project page for more:

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Baby it's cold outside! Channeling this little guy in a snuggly outfit in front of a fire with lots of snacks, from a 13th-century Psalter calendar page for January😊🔥 @bodleianlibs MS. Add. A. 46, f. 1r

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I managed to fix a fuse at work this morning, going to tell everyone I turned darkness into light! 🌑☀️ Christine de Pizan and the Sybil exploring the heavens, from the 15th-century Book of the Queen, @BLMedieval Harley MS 4431, f. 189v

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I know we'll catch that villain! A medieval Scooby Doo appears in this 13th-century bestiary, telling the legend of a loyal dog who cracks the case and identifies his master's killer in a crowd to be punished @BLMedieval Royal MS 12 C XIX, f. 21r 🐶🔎

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Go figure! Resembling a crossword, this C9th manuscript contains an acrostic figure-poem by the poet Venantius Fortunatus on redeeming human nature from sin. Add MS 24193, f. 30r #PolonskyPre1200

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How I look vs how I feel! Taking it easy on a sick day by looking at this fantastic depiction of a transi tomb from a 15th-century Carthusian miscellany, now @BLMedieval Add MS 37049, f. 32v 📜☠️

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Big wheel keep on turning: The Wheel of Fortune looks like a dangerous carnival ride with a king at the top, from a C15th French copy of Boccaccio's Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes. Royal MS 20 C IV, f. 1r

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In stitches! 🪡 A medieval scribe wrote around this manuscript’s sewing repair and highlighted it in red ink, from a 13th-century collection of saints’ lives. @bodleianlibs MS. Laud misc. 315 will be digitised soon as part of the Mainz Charterhouse MSS project!

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I had so much fun seeing @York_Minster 's 12th-cent Doomstone this weekend! This fantastic scene of gleeful devils & Hellmouths torturing souls is very like the amazing images of Hell in @BLMedieval Winchester Psalter made in the same period (Cotton MS Nero C IV, ff. 38r+39r)

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Happy Pancake Tuesday! I’m celebrating with this fantastic 15th-century recipe for medieval ‘cryspes’, similar to a crêpe and deep-fried! 😋🥞 Now @bodleianlibs MS. Ashmole 1439, f. 39r

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Medievalist living my best life* *crawling around a historic church with a cadaver tomb 😂☠️

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what’s y’all favorite picture of y’all from the year so far?

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You're toxic, I'm slipping under: The siren, often half-human, half-fish charms sailors with their beautiful singing. Those attracted to the singing fall asleep- the sirens then attack and tear the sailors’ flesh. #InternationalMermaidDay 🧜‍♀️ Harley MS 4751, f. 47v

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Happy #WorldGothDay ! This fantastic Memento Mori from a 15th-century Book of Hours is a great reminder that spooky season is for life, not just Halloween 😍☠️ @BLMedieval Yates Thompson MS 7, f. 174r

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Happy Burns Night! To celebrate, here’s an amazing medieval recipe for haggis (‘hagws of a shepe’) from a 15th-century cookery book, now @bodleianlibs MS. Ashmole 1439, f. 35r 🐏🎉

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Here comes the sun, it's all right! A red sun with human features rises over a city in the Splendor Solis,1582 Harley MS 3469, f. 33v #heatwave

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Heart to Heart, Dust to Dust! Valentine’s Day falls on Ash Wednesday this year, so here’s a fantastic image of a man presenting a woman with a memento mori! ❤️☠️ From a 16th-century Book of Hours, now @bodleianlibs MS. Douce 135, f. 69v

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A medieval killer whale! The bestiary tells us that whales disguise themselves as small islands to lure sailors to land on their backs, before dragging the ships and crew down into the watery depths #orcauprising 🐳 @BLMedieval Harley MS 4751, f. 69r

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2 years

A special Valentine for book lovers! Did you know a heart-shaped manuscript is known as a cordiform? 📜💖 L: @laBnF MS Latin 10536, Book of Hours, 15th century R: @metmuseum Young Man Holding a Book by the Master of the View of Sainte Gudule, c. 1480 #ValentinesDay

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4 years

The #RuleOfSix comes into force today! A scene of the Three Living encountering the Three Dead from the 14th-century De Lisle Psalter produced in England 🤴☠️ @BLMedieval Arundel MS 83, f. 127v

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8 months

Medieval Selfie! 📸 Here’s a fantastic self-portrait by the artist of the late 13th-century Aspermont Psalter with a scroll note that reads Nicolaus illuminated this book, from @bodleianlibs MS. Douce 118, f. 142r 🎨

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1 year

Do you guys ever think about dying? ☠️ A beautifully dressed skeleton worthy of Barbie admires her own reflection as a memento mori in the Office of the Dead, from the 15th-cent Hours of Dionora of Urbino, now @BLMedieval Yates Thompson MS 7, f. 174r

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3 years

Loved seeing this detailed depiction of an illuminated Missal manuscript in this painting ‘Convent Thoughts’ by Charles Allston Collins dated 1850/1 @AshmoleanMuseum today!

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6 months

It’s officially fritillary season in Oxford! Spotted these lovelies today in @ChCh_Oxford Meadow 💜🏁

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