Right, it's #InternationalDogDay, and boy (boi?) do we have a thread for you.
Animals on Show 1 (42): digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/07a9…
The English bulldog appears frequently in our digitized Curzon collection of cartoons from the Napoleonic Wars. Here, a bulldog named Wellington and a Russian bear attack a monkey representing Napoleon.
Meanwhile, back in London, a "most Wonderful and Sagacious...LEARNED DOG" could be seen as part of a variety show. He could tell time, count money, and "spell any Person's Thoughts by the impenetrable Secret". digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/8cc7… #InternationalDogDay
There was also the "MOST BEAUTIFUL DOG", discovered in Greenland, with 16-inch ears and a fine wool coat, who had astonished "the principal Nobility in England". These advertisements feature in our @jjcollephemera collection of printed ephemera. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/07a9…
@jjcollephemera Dogs danced and climbed ladders in "Mrs. Midnight's Animal Comedians", a 1753 show. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/d6be…
@jjcollephemera And now, the manuscript dogs. One French book of hours--a richly decorated medieval prayerbook--contains 12 pictures of the same two dogs. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/b03c… #InternationalDogDay
@jjcollephemera A while back, @bodleianlibs turned these 12 images into a medieval dog flipbook. #InternationalDogDay
@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs In medieval bestiaries--illustrated catalogues of real and mythical animals--dogs were described with a few principal traits. Firstly, they lick their own wounds to heal them:
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs Secondly, a dog will always return to its own vomit:
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs Thirdly--and perhaps most unfairly--a dog holding meat in its mouth, seeing its own reflection in water, will drop the real meat to try to pick up the reflection of meat.
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs Bestiaries also often include stories of exceptionally faithful dogs, such as King Garamantes' dogs, who rescued him from capture, and and a dog who died of grief watching over his master's body.
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs Two of our digitized bestiaries lead off their dog sections with a handsome picture of three dogs of different colours. The text explains that the word "canis" comes either from Greek or from the sound of a barking dog ("canere").
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs Dogs appear as a commonplace of courtly life in the medieval Romance of the Rose, whether accompanying a horseman or eating scraps under the table.
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs An unusually stocky, fluffy dog adorns the margins of MS. Douce 93, a Dutch book of hours.
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@jjcollephemera @bodleianlibs Do we have medieval sheepdogs? We do.
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(Actually, one of these might be a wolf.)
We also have this slightly Seussian dog, determinedly chasing a goat. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/192c…
Medieval service dogs appear in MS. Bodl. 264 and MS. Douce 62, carrying the begging bowls of their blind owners.
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Other dogs in the margins of MS. Bodl. 264 dance, hunt, run, and simply lounge around.
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The more time you spend with illuminated manuscripts, the more dogs you might see. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/5eb5…
That goes for Hebrew manuscripts too, including our gorgeous #KennicottBible, which shows dogs hunting, howling and pricking their ears.
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We'd love to see any dogs you've found in our digitized images. Here's one more from us, from MS. Douce 219. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/93f2… #InternationalDogDay
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