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Durham Cathedral Library & Collections. Remarkable historic objects, medieval manuscripts, early printed books, modern theological works & friendly librarians.
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'Glory be to God for dappled things' -- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sandstone in the south quire aisle of .

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2019-09-12

We've just discovered the hashtag from . Great idea!

Here's our contribution. The 'Dark Entry' at . Escape into the light!

Who else has a to share?

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2019-06-08

Today we celebrate the feast of St Cuthbert, our great northern saint, who died in 687 & is buried in .
So here’s a thread on St Cuthbert & some of the treasures in our collections.

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2019-03-20

The light at the end of this tunnel leads to our library.

(Er, well, also a world famous Cathedral. But mostly the library.)

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2019-03-14

In 995 the monks came to Durham. (Here’s the bishop and the cow part of the story!)
Bishop Aldhun had a vision of St Cuthbert, instructing that his body should be taken to 'Dunholme' (hill island), but no one knew where it was...

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2019-03-08

Day 17
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.

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2018-12-17

Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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2018-12-11

Day 10
Will you be eating figgy pudding this Christmas? A tradition dating back to C16th, when fig trees became commonplace in English gardens. This hand-coloured by Johann Muller (or John Miller) dates from 1777.

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2018-12-10

Day 6
A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates.

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2018-12-06