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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Some festive mistletoe appears in the amazing Tudor Pattern Book dated c. 1520-30, now @bodleianlibs MS Ashmole 1504, f. 23v 🎅🏻🎄
To celebrate #PrideMonth here is a stunning portrait by artist Duncan Grant of his model and lover Patrick Nelson, dated 1930. This work is now housed at @SPC_Oxford and currently featuring in @YorkArtGallery’s Beyond Bloomsbury exhibition ending 5 June! 🎨
I’m sure the alpacas outside the library were excited to be so near to their medieval cousins! From the 13th-century Ashmole Bestiary, @bodleianlibs MS Ashmole 1511, f. 31v 🦙
This sports fan is hoping the #SuperbOwl will be a real hoot! From an early 15th-cent French Book of Hours, @MorganLibrary MS 1004, f. 79r 🦉🏈
We like them apples! It’s fantastic to see the harvest underway in Kent orchards, much like this scene picking tart apples from a 14th-cent Latin trans of Ibn Butlan’s Arabic medical handbook Tacuinum Sanitatis (ÖNB, CV s.n. 2644, f. 9r) 🍎📜
Harvest close-up via @Kent_Online
It started as another grim, drizzly day until a chorus of schoolchildren sang 'Good Morning to You!' walking past my window and now I'm happy to be in a live production of Singin' in the Rain! 😊☔️
(Croesus under a rain cloud, @BLMedieval Harley MS 1766, f. 133r)
Why does it always rain on me? Croesus kneels in a fire extinguished by the rain cloud above in John Lydgate's Fall of the Princes c1450
Harley MS 1766, f. 133r https://t.co/QTZiK9G77s #aprilshowers
Just like honey: a #medieval Winnie the Pooh appears in a C15th Italian manuscript, Harley MS 3448 f. 10v https://t.co/SZVC3GrljV