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Bodleian Digital Library Systems & Services: support/systems for @bodleianlibs, including digitization & preservation.
Sep 13, 2019 • 21 tweets • 14 min read
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
Aug 26, 2019 • 21 tweets • 24 min read
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
Mar 4, 2019 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
'...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.
Nov 22, 2018 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
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
MS. Ashmole 304, fol. 36r
Aug 30, 2018 • 17 tweets • 17 min read
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