Baby it's cold outside! Channeling this little guy in a snuggly outfit in front of a fire with lots of snacks, from a 13th-century Psalter calendar page for January 😊🔥 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Add. A. 46, f. 1r
Get the party started! Angels and demons look like they’re ready to ring in the New Year in this fantastic 15th-century French treatise on the Last Judgement, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 134 😇🌟😈🔥🎉
Today is the feast commemorating the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket in 1170, this year I got to visit the amazing wall painting depiction of his murder surviving in the Church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington! ⚔️🎨
Santa brought me a record player, so I had a fun first vinyl hunt at Truck Witney today! 🎶 Recommendations welcome for classical and jazz recordings! 🤗
If you snooze, you don’t lose! Using these fun figures as holiday nap time inspiration 🛏️😴 From @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social: 1. MS. Lat. bib. e. 7, f. 300r 2. MS. Douce 199, f. 221v 3. MS. Douce 331, f. 8r 4. MS. Douce 374, f. 18v (Roman)
Merry Christmas everyone from these festive grotesques ready to celebrate! 🎅🎄🐉 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 5, f. 75v
Elmo has made it to Oxford! We’re celebrating like this medieval nun cuddling her puppy, from British Library, Stowe MS 17, f. 100r 🐶🎄
Yessss, manuscript party time! 😘📜
To mark the winter solstice, here’s a fantastic diagram explaining solar and lunar time from a 12th-century computistical miscellany compiled at Thorney Abbey! 🌞🌖 Oxford, St John’s College MS. 17, f. 35v
