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Afterwards, check out the digitized photographs on Digital Bodleian, including 1) a set of Talbot negatives and salt prints: https://t.co/8Ao5AvrZD9

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2019-08-19

The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is a featured location in The Seventh Doctor # 1 by , , , , , & the team.

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2019-07-28

Mini-thread: Why do medieval devils have faces on their groins/bottoms/knees?

Well, Christians saw the body as reflecting the proper order of the universe: up/right/front is good, down/left/back is bad. Demons invert that.

(Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 67v)

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2019-07-26

One of the Bodleian's manuscripts, MS. Laud Misc. 96, contains half a dozen different bastarda hands. These images show the range of forms this script can take--and the challenge for palaeographers. https://t.co/UDZieNn0Rk

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2019-07-23

Oh hi hive mind

Does anyone recognise this on the of a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, (Paris, 1583)?

Bodleian shelfmark: Buchanan g.32

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2019-06-26

Sweet dreams are made of this: the Song of the Siren 😴😱

Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764; Bestiary; 13th century; England; f.74v
Harley 4751; Bestiary; England; 13th century; f.47v

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2019-06-16

Krishna and ladies in a garden with peacocks, anonymous, Bodleian Library https://t.co/oBNGyiBaTS (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2019-06-10

Mee-thin-gyo-thee. Cremation, anonymous, Bodleian Library https://t.co/piJLKfVmyt (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2019-06-05

We're in the process of migrating about 40,000 images of mid-Victorian piano music from https://t.co/yp1Hvp89uR to Digital Bodleian. Nearly 30,000 images are already online, with their crowdsourced annotations soon to follow: https://t.co/U2cuN4KRrp

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2019-05-16

Keh-lan-gyoung. Rice sticks, anonymous, Bodleian Library https://t.co/9TyC658Ae7 (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2019-05-16

Thinking 3D 🧠 A new exhibition at tells the story of three-dimensional communication using some of the Bodleian Libraries’ finest books, manuscripts, prints and drawings: https://t.co/7nlGUyfptZ

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2019-04-30

Dooyin-young-thee. Burmese fruit-seller, anonymous, Bodleian Library https://t.co/TGCL8GZGn3 (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2019-03-31


2nd March 1545
Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of The Bodleian Library was born in Exeter.
The scholar & diplomat was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He served Queen Elizabeth I as a Gentleman Usher.

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2019-03-02

A Burmese House, anonymous, Bodleian Library https://t.co/4z8fUmcdNB (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2019-02-13

Soul leaving the body, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France c. 1450-1470 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47v)

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2018-10-09

Maps from a 16th century copy of Idrīsī's seminal 12th-century geography of the known world, Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq. The 70 maps from this copy, based on the text, can be viewed on Digital Bodleian: https://t.co/pZ6r2X0n2i.

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2018-10-01

It's our Cover Star - Donnington (let's not dwell on the rude and unnecessary things the other Trolls are leaving in his pigeon hole).#oxford

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2018-09-16

Falling stars, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47r) https://t.co/fkyX7ZGFs1

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2018-08-10

Cats, 'The Ashmole Bestiary', England 1201-1225 (Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, fol. 35v) https://t.co/ZbqNbm7yZW

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2018-06-14

Souls leaving the bodies, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47v)

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2018-03-18