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It's newly digitized manuscript day on the #PolonskyGerman website! Five new medieval manuscripts online, featuring historiated initials, Anglo-Saxon minuscule, and two volumes of Pauline epistles spanning 400 years. https://t.co/w7S6QNaRFU

One of the Bodleian's #PolonskyGerman manuscripts, MS. Laud Misc. 96, contains half a dozen different bastarda hands. These images show the range of forms this script can take--and the challenge for palaeographers. https://t.co/UDZieNn0Rk #PolonskyGerman

Filled-in writing blank from 1783, commemorating the 'Engagement of the Royal Fleet under the command of Sir George Brydge Rodney'. Rodney was a naval commander in the American Revolutionary War: https://t.co/t8mg7sxEvX

"The daw stript, of his borrow'd plumes" - this cartoon from November 1813 satirises Napoleon's defeat by the Sixth Coalition the battle of Leipzig a month prior: https://t.co/RX2gTOAcDi

And between all these, there's a fair bit of theology, sermons, saints' lives, and philosophy. It's a medieval manuscript, after all: https://t.co/zt8Xi4T9ib #PolonskyGerman

The first text is a German-language translation of the Rule of St. Benedict - the manuscript was at one stage in the library of the Cistercian abbey of Eberbach: https://t.co/IkWSLdv4CX #PolonskyGerman

And quite a few frescoes: https://t.co/PIUEnQoQ0W

12th century copy of Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets with decorative initials - another #PolonskyGerman manuscript from the Domstift St Kilian, Würzburg. The text has been punctuated to help with reading aloud: https://t.co/VCkIewdgaZ

The leaf is from MS. Laud Misc. 90, another manuscript digitized under our #PolonskyGerman collaboration. The main text is Hugh of Saint-Victor's De sacramentis christianae fide, book 2. The ex libris is that of the Cisterican abbey of Eberbach, Germany. https://t.co/DrqJKXQ8dg

Good news! Your Flanders cherries are ripe today (according to John Tradescant's 1620s guide to the ripening dates of various fruits).

MS. Ashmole 1461, fol. 17r: https://t.co/NU9V2NeMcP