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Heatwave, you say? #HotCulture

British Library Harley MS 1766, f. 133r
https://t.co/D3a7pPsKKB

When, oh when will it stop?! 😉 #rain

This is happening in London right now.

RAIN, that is, not King Croesus back from the dead.

We may be @BLMedieval but still ...

Harley MS 1766, f. 133r
https://t.co/geEMTtXUz8

The Gospel-book containing one of the 'most outstanding [portraits] in Byzantine art' can now be viewed online:
https://t.co/3YornXt76b

The scribe of this magnificent Gospel-book signed his name 'Kallist Rasoder' or 'Kallist with the Raggedy Clothes':
https://t.co/3YornXt76b

'This is no longer a myth nor poetry but the deepest truth of nature': how a story about a traveller, a powerful sorceress + pigs has inspired writers for millenia https://t.co/sm4HqJuxqw
Harley MS 4431, 140r

House of the Rising Sun: A drawing of 'Sol Domus' (House of the Sun) in a C14th treatise on astrology.

Sloane MS 3983, f. 39v https://t.co/UFSRCWKxFd #heatwave

Coming up tomorrow on the Medieval Manuscripts Blog: our new blogpost by @bbeckyL on the subject of medieval midwifery (here's a sneak preview)

Think your writing is taking a long time? Augustine devoted nearly thirty years to his 15-book treatise on the Trinity https://t.co/ikSWAnsHXs #AmWriting #PolonskyPre1200

Text + images work together in figural poems from a c. 1170 copy of De laudibus sanctae crucis by Hrabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz (died #OTD 856)
Explore the whole manuscript: https://t.co/7S48FbryYE