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We just added four new medieval manuscripts to our #PolonskyGerman project site, featuring:

• Dogs and hares
• Saints’ lives
• An otherworldly flying creature we think might be a dragon but honestly we're not sure
• Bede

👉 https://t.co/w7S6QNaRFU

@ExeterCollegeOx @Exeoxlibrary At number 6, an exercise in performative friendship several centuries before Facebook: this 17th century ‘album amicorum’, a ‘friendship book’ in which inscriptions, signatures and drawings commemorate friends of the owner: https://t.co/Y8pmhFFmRB

With number 11, we were tweeting about HOGs before they were cool, and you loved it: https://t.co/utSr0SEom6

Photograph of a steel worker by documentary photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky. Port Talbot, 1950s: https://t.co/WR4a2l9Uv4

Ouch: Thomas Topham, The Strong Man, lifts three barrels (with his legs and not his back, we hope) in one of his "astonishing feats of Strength" in 1741. https://t.co/aiE1Mw86jG

A breathtaking Hebrew manuscript digitized for our #PolonskyProject is returning to Galicia for an exhibition. Read about what makes it special: https://t.co/FaCtFBVa7B.

Then browse the digitized images to see for yourself. https://t.co/Ie3NVexDfZ

We're getting spoiled by @ChCh_Oxford lately. Another recent addition to Digital Bodleian from their collections is this 1456 manuscript copy of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, produced in Ferrara by Matteo Contugi of Volterra: https://t.co/ZbnihsUVyR

We're dangerously close to losing a whole morning just gazing happily at this anglo-saxon minuscule script, dashed with splashes of red, yellow and green, from a Carolingian legal text we recently digitized in our #PolonskyGerman collaboration: https://t.co/c4lKCDxGJb

"...the stronger, they will exact as much as they can, and the weaker must of force give place." @ChCh_Oxford have just digitized this early modern manuscript, a translation into English of Thucydides, by Francis Hickes: https://t.co/z72xqKAcs1

These images were captured for "Illuminating the Life of the Buddha", a 2013 book about MS. Pali a. 27 (R) by Appleton, Shaw and Unebe: https://t.co/roFCCL6j6V. The @bodleianlibs copy is out to a reader, but we've got a hold on it next.