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It's newly digitized manuscript day on the website! Five new medieval manuscripts online, featuring historiated initials, Anglo-Saxon minuscule, and two volumes of Pauline epistles spanning 400 years. https://t.co/w7S6QNaRFU

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2019-07-31

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

'Humbugging, or Raising the Devil' by Thomas Rowlandson (1800), from .

Cunning-folk were the sort of wizards who knew how to put on a good show. Arcane objects filled their consulting rooms: skulls, strange animals, herbs, & mysterious manuscripts, as shown here.

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2019-07-22

Do you have any written material you would like published? Send your manuscripts to submission.com

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2019-07-04

BOOKS: Not just a book about or a book about historical manuscripts, CATS IN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS is funny and enlightening with some exquisite illustrations...

Full review: https://t.co/BygNSXBM0r

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2019-06-24

Happy Here is a 16th c. painting of and Two Ancient Britons, by Lucas De Heere, from manuscript Add MS 28330 (folios 36r and 8v). You can browse the whole manuscript in our Digitized Manuscripts page here: https://t.co/3Zx8WZe5lJ

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2019-06-21

This is a new one for me - beautiful illustrations painted on fig leaves.

These two manuscripts will soon be digitised as part of the project
Or 8855 & Add ms 11746

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2019-06-12

Worship manifests as acts of devotion;
Monks illuminate manuscripts,
Merchants patronize the arts,
I conjured dark magicks to be wielded by Acolytes of Death
It will be in your hands soon, I hope my tribute is worthy

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2019-05-29

Our June & auction is now online, featuring a fine & rare set of 24 globe gores for a 42 inch terrestrial globe by & much more! View the full sale catalogue here: https://t.co/OvgSellzLq

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2019-05-27

The installation of our next exhibition, Thai Buddhist Tales, (opening 14th June) is underway! The folding manuscripts are supported on bespoke cradles, with soft polythene tape to hold them gently in place

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2019-05-24

This is Humfrey Wanley, who looked after the Harley library in the 18th century. We are now starting to create new descriptions of the Harley manuscripts, building on the pioneering efforts of Wanley and other scholars https://t.co/rmyEZqWuEV

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2019-05-15

have been mischaracterized for a few reasons (Thread, abbrev. from Wiki, 1/n)

1. Scarcity of biographical information generally

2. Anonymity – e.g. nuns illuminating manuscripts

https://t.co/vfscVSlmOR

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2019-05-10

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

Cave 464, one of the most fascinating Buddhist chapels at Dunhuang, yielded a large corpus of Uygur manuscripts, movable types &inscriptions, along with materials in other languages. It was rebuilt in 14th c to bury a Mongol princess & used by Uygur monks to produce printed books

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2019-04-29

It's time to explore our new medieval manuscripts website.

What's not to like?

https://t.co/rYZcxwBylj

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2019-04-22

The original design is held by the William Morris Gallery. It was famously inspired by the garden at Red House, which featured rose trellises inspired by medieval manuscripts. Philip Webb, Morris's friend and the architect of Red House, drew in the birds.

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2019-04-19

It's today! And we love the images of bats that can be found in Samuel Richard Tickell's (1809-1875) illustrated This is one of our favourites, but all the bat images are lovely, so keep your eyes peeled for more later!

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2019-04-17