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Some oak galls (below) with common gromwell and meadow clary (above), in a late 13th/early 14th-century Italian herbal

Read here about how to make oak gall ink https://t.co/hQmV1f9zQV

Egerton MS 747, f. 44r
https://t.co/z3Qrlu1zFW

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2021-05-13

Friday 6th December is the Feast of St Nicholas. Here St Nicholas is depicted with the three officers of Constantine

BnF MS Latin 18303; The Life & Miracles of St Nicholas; 11th century; France; f.1v

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2019-12-05

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

Greco-Roman historian Flavius Josephus (d. c. 100) wrote 2 historiographical works related to Jewish histories, both in biblical & extra-biblical times

https://t.co/bHOVNGYttC
Tip: follow the shelfmark link for full digitial copy to find more beautiful initials

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2019-04-09

Highlights of the highlights of linked within the article https://t.co/fjU9SkIdMh

Advanced quizz: who recognizes the manuscripts from these details?

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2019-04-08

Some leafy initials for - all and newly added to the website

Cotton MS Faustina A V https://t.co/WEXvvevJVn
Add MS 18298 https://t.co/mqRdMVGS3W
Add MS 37517 https://t.co/RjNw7q9Scx

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2019-03-29

What secrets hide in medieval mss? This one has 3 books in 1 (some Bede, a calendar, a computus) + a song about the zodiac signs & a grinning creature.

Exhibition item: https://t.co/WY2liXaWIB (f. 20r)
(Follow the 'Shelfmark' link to full digital copy)

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2019-03-26

Several of the manuscripts in our Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition were digitised and described as part of our partnership with , sponsored by The Polonsky Foundation.

You can read more about them here (go on, we dare you):

https://t.co/rYZcxwBylj

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2019-02-12

"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way"

This 11th-century recipe lists as one of its ingredients, maybe before that substance reached western Europe.

Now that's most delightful!

https://t.co/PT9irpDPJJ

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2018-12-30

All hail the mighty fish - the Merovingians (5th-8thC) were fond of zoomorphic pictures in their mss. Charlotte Denoël outlines art historical trends in 8-12thC France
https://t.co/Q7xn38qxaQ
British Library, Add MS 31031, f. 55v

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2018-12-28

Two 'P's in a pod, none are exactly the same - Peter Lombard (d. 1160) commenting St Paul's Letters
BL Harley MS 3253, 2nd half of 12thC, England or Northern France
https://t.co/N84bARE3Wo

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2018-06-11

Eat or be eaten - frog-eating fish, fish eaten by birds BL, Harley MS 4751 f.33r https://t.co/77I9G8yPLw

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2018-04-27

Think your writing is taking a long time? Augustine devoted nearly thirty years to his 15-book treatise on the Trinity https://t.co/ikSWAnsHXs

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2018-03-14

Click through for more amazing anthropomorphic initials in this 12th-century collection of saints' lives https://t.co/uv7gSpPmuP

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2018-01-26

Unknown artists painted this initial in 9th century Carolingian France. Isn't it wonderful? https://t.co/UGrGiRMbho

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2017-09-26

Bird watching across time, spotted a 9th century & https://t.co/qGIUEj5s7G ff. 9v, 11v

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2017-06-19

today's catch of Friday Fish, over 1200 years old
https://t.co/aAtF7pAN7C

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2017-04-28

From monks' sign language to an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle fragment, this newly ms has it all https://t.co/qV6w3dPb77

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2017-04-04