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Bodleian Digital Library Systems & Services: support/systems for @bodleianlibs, including digitization & preservation.
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You might remember this miniature from last week's thread: https://t.co/lZ1XasTw3d. It's the Antichrist riding into Jerusalem, dressed as the Pope. Notice the banners, the windvane, and the expression of the horse behind the Antichrist. https://t.co/8wVDvKAZAL

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Join us next time, when we explore MS. Douce 134's depictions of the Antichrist, judgment, hell, paradise, and windmills. https://t.co/jKiNzVsfkr

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Want to see how medieval illuminators worked? MS. Douce 180 contains miniatures in various stages of completion: drawing, applying gold leaf, painting figures, and painting backgrounds. https://t.co/nkYB9vLHU1

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Besides its decorative initial-word panels, this 1472 copy of texts from the Hebrew bible has marginal commentaries in elegant carmina figurata. We digitizied it as part of our https://t.co/2Cs1t9w8K3

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This is a vernacular Italian translation of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia Magna, a medieval guide to surgery. It was annotated by an early reader, especially the bits on anatomy and treating abcesses and pustules. https://t.co/f3MBPcicoo

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The decoration was added in stages, across the end of the 13th century and through to the 1320s. A more detailed catalogue entry is available over at our Western Manuscripts catalogue: https://t.co/IQRYLhRl0t

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On with the second semi-final: 'Tradescant's Orchard' versus the 'Ormesby Psalter'. Both a feast for the eyes; both worth spending a while gazing at side-by-side in gloriously high detail here: https://t.co/HZy3GAQHG7

Poll in the next Tweet!

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Fittingly for the first day of today's features 'Tradescant's Orchard', a guide to the ripening dates of orchard fruits. The competition? MS. Canon. Misc. 213, our rare copy of early secular songs. https://t.co/i9p2745d34

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