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Mar 14, 2019 • 3 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
The Bodleian holds one of only four surviving 14th-century copies of Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ's Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah, an Arabic translation of Sanskrit fables. "Richly illustrated" is an understatement. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/860d… [MS. Pococke 400] MS. Pococke 400, fol. 43b: foxMS. Pococke 400, fol. 45a: ...MS. Pococke 400, fol. 58b: ...MS. Pococke 400, fol. 75b: ...
The Bavarian State Library have digitized their copy as well, and it's available via #IIIF at @WDLorg, meaning you can use Mirador to compare lions. wdl.org/en/item/8933/ [BSB Cod. arab. 616] #FolkloreThursday ImageImageImageImage
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Sep 13, 2019
OK, we have a thread for you. MS. Canon. Or. 81, fol. 95v: detail of dog and ferret-like animal
As you may know, we digitized nearly 800 Hebrew manuscripts as part of our #PolonskyProject collaboration with @DigitaVaticana. bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk screenshot of Hebrew manuscripts in Digital Bodleian
These manuscripts include some very beautiful Hebrew Bibles, such as MSS. Kennicott 1, 2 and 3:

digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/8c26…
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/51d6…
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/28cb… MS. Kennicott 1, fol. 5r, with pen flourishing and gold leafMS. Kennicott 2, fol. 26r: page decorated with gold and micrographyMS. Kennicott 3, fol. 1v: decorated page
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Aug 26, 2019
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… Advertisement for A Most Beautiful DOG
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. Curzon b.28(111), a bulldog with
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 advertisement for Le Chien Savant, or, The LEARNED DOG
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Mar 4, 2019
'...boke ys myn. Ely[]th ye qwene'
'This boke ys myn Katherina the qwene'

This beautifully-decorated 14th century psalter, now held by @ExeterCollegeOx, was owned by both Elizabeth of York and Katherine of Aragon, Tudor queens-consort of England: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/4000… Handwritten inscription inside a medieval psalter, partially faded, with ownership notes of Elizabeth of York and Katherine of Aragon.Illuminated calendar page from a medieval psalter.Illuminated page from a medieval psalter.Detail of an illuminated page from a medieval psalter.
The entire manuscript has been digitized by @ExeterCollegeOx and made availble on Digital Bodleian.

Every single page is decorated. In the calendar which starts the psalter, medallions depict activities associated with the months, and signs of the zodiac. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/4000… Detail of an illuminated medallion from a medieval manuscript, depicting a man on horseback holding a hawk.Detail of an illuminated medallion from a medieval manuscript, depicting a man gathering crops.Detail of an illuminated medallion from a medieval manuscript, depicting the zodiacal sign Taurus as a bull.Detail of an illuminated medallion from a medieval manuscript, depicting the zodiacal sign Cancer as a crab.
The calendar later had information added concerning the families of kings Henry VII and VIII. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/4000… Detail of a handwritten addition to a medieval psalter.Detail of a handwritten addition to a medieval psalter.Detail of a handwritten addition to a medieval psalter.
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Nov 22, 2018
If you search for Ashmole 782--the magical manuscript featured in 'A Discovery of Witches'--you'll be disappointed. There is no Ashmole 782: medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
adiscoveryofwitches.co.uk/abouta782.html
The Ashmole collection is still full of wonderful, magical things, however (as our friends at @AshmoleanMuseum can attest). For example, MS. Ashmole 304, Matthew Paris's texts on prognostication, written c. 1250: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/a3a4…

MS. Ashmole 304, fol. 31v
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There's also MS. Ashmole 1431, an 11th-century herbal produced in Canterbury, which features in several Pinterest posts about Ashmole 782: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/bdde…


MS. Ashmole 1431, fols. 15v-16r
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Aug 30, 2018
This pretty scene of castles and horses is in fact a depiction of the coming of the Antichrist, from the 15th-century apocalyptic
"Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur". Today we'll be touring all 15 signs of the Antichrist in this manuscript, MS. Douce 134: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/3854… MS. Douce 134, fol. 64: horse paradeMS. Douce 134, fol. 6r: detail
Signs 1 and 2 of the coming of the Antichrist: the sea rises to the mountaintops and then descends out of sight.

MS. Douce 134, ff. 41v-42r digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/9175… #FolkloreThursday MS. Douce 134, fol. 41v: rising seaMS. Douce 134, fol. 41v: rising seaMS. Douce 134, fol. 42r: descending seaMS. Douce 134, fol. 42r: descending sea
The third sign of the coming of the Antichrist: the gathering together of the fish and sea monsters. (It appears that the sea has risen again since the second sign.)

MS. Douce 134, fol. 42v digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/fc85… #FolkloreThursday MS. Douce 134, fol. 42v: fish and sea monstersMS. Douce 134, fol. 42v: fish and sea monsters
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