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Today is the beginning of Passiontide, the last fortnight in Lent, a season of deepening solemnity as the commemoration of Christ's Passion draws near. 'Þe kynges baneres beth forth ylad', and some other medieval texts for this season: https://t.co/G2KOn9hxmR

Today is the beginning of Passiontide, the last fortnight in Lent, a season of deepening solemnity as the commemoration of Christ's Passion draws near. 'Þe kynges baneres beth forth ylad', and some other medieval texts for this season: https://t.co/G2KOn9hxmR

The coming of Christ 'the golden blossom': an Anglo-Saxon reflection on Advent, season of poetry and paradox https://t.co/EcA3htaZOe

St James always looks ready to wander off the manuscript page and set out on his travels, except when he's distracted by his reading.

Images from 14th/15th-century manuscripts, Bodleian MS. Douce 245 & BL Add. 50001, Egerton 3277, Yates Thompson 3.

Some more of the birds and other creatures who inhabit the margins of this 13th-century manuscript... https://t.co/SNp0cC3UBa

The opening of St John's Gospel, 'In Principio', in some gorgeous Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and in the Old English translation: 'On anginne ærest wæs word, and þæt word wæs mid Gode, and God wæs þæt word.'

(BL Add. 34890 & Royal 1 D IX; Bod. Lat liturg. f.5; BL Royal 1 A XIV)

St Stephen in red and gold, from an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscript (BL Cotton Caligula A XIV, f. 3v) https://t.co/egdHwvQQ6m

Today is the beginning of Passiontide, the last fortnight in Lent, a season whose name means 'the time of suffering'. Some medieval versions of the Passiontide hymn 'Vexilla Regis Prodeunt': https://t.co/G2KOn9hxmR

The coming of Christ 'the golden blossom': an Anglo-Saxon reflection on Advent, season of poetry and paradox https://t.co/EcA3htaZOe

@FintryTrust Images of Mary's childhood show her as the object of her parents' love, holding her mother's hand, or being taught to read. St Anne was a maternal saint in whom medieval mothers could see themselves reflected.

(BL Harley 2915 and 2897, Haddon Hall; All Souls, Oxford)