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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 manuscript is an early 15th century collection of saints' lives. It used to be even bigger - judging from the medieval foliation, 81 leaves might now be missing from the beginning. https://t.co/HDGWymiUyA #PolonskyGerman

@jjcollephemera In this 1828 version, "War with America" is rebranded "American Independence". https://t.co/vMwSavZPAV

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