Medieval Manuscripts

@BLMedieval

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  1. Busy day sorting MSS images for exhibition. Loving Arundel 83 II (f.131v and f.134v)

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  2. That December feeling Add MS 49622 Gorleston Psalter f142r 1310-1324

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  3. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Egerton 2633, f. 1r

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  4. Want to come to work with the team? We are looking for a fixed-term Curator of Medieval Historical MSS

  5. This is fascinating and chilling. A papyrus deed of sale of a slave boy from Syria, AD 166

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  6. About to pounce. Add MS 62925 f. 60r

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  7. Don't forget to book your place on our open day (pre-1600 collections) for new PhD students!

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  8. Snail castle with guard dog Add MS 36684, f 146r

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  9. Barbara's Day: 4 december. Scenes fom her life and martyrdom in the exquisite Huth Hours. Add38126

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  10. Postgraduate Open Day on our Pre-1600 Collections

  11. Two lovers, and the King of Love with his arrows. Stowe17

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  12. Awww! Add MS 62925 f. 53v

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  13. Nativity from Yates Thompson 3. The scroll reads 'puer na' (puer natus est)

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  14. Duel Between the Margin and the Text (, Stowe 17, 14th c.)

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  15. Angel of plague (Rev 16:4), 'Silos Apocalypse’, St Domingo de Silos 1091-1109 (BL, Add 11695, f. 175r)

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  16. Distracted stringed instrument players; audience not so kind Egerton MS 3277, f. 160r

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  17. Let's Dance! Those bagpipe tunes are happy! -- Maastricht Hours 1st quarter of the 14th century

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  18. Attack of the levitating snail. Add MS 62925 f. 48r

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  19. Swordfish (, YT 19) - / via

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  20. A Calendar Page for December 2015

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