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"nolite fieri sicut equus et mulus quibus
non est intellectus
in camo et freno maxillas eorum
constringe"
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, WLB Cod.bibl.fol.23 Stuttgart Psalter; 801-850; St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France; f.39v @WLB_Stuttgart
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"Exultate iusti in Domino rectos decet laudatio
Confitemini Domino in cithara in psalterio decem
cordarum psallute illi"
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, WLB Cod.bibl.fol.23 Stuttgart Psalter; 801-850; St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France; ff.39v-40r @WLB_Stuttgart
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#TuesdayTurnUp #OTD #BOTD Sylvia Plath #poetry 💜
'The yew tree points up. It has a Gothic shape.
The eyes lift after it and find the moon...
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls...'
The Moon and The Yew Tree
#Gothober #Spooktober #Halloween #silicasun 👻🍂🦇🌳📓🎃🦉💚
Stuart Kells retweeted
I went book shopping today.
Seichō Matsumoto / Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Vintage
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November with St Martin, St Cecilia, and St Andrew #MedievalCalendar
BSB Clm 8271; Breviarium cum picturis et litteris initialibus splendide exornatis et pictis (Breviary of Michaelbeuern); 12th century; f.7v @bsb_muenchen
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Belated #OwlishMonday
Please excuse this owl being late for #OwlishMonday; there was just so much intense activity in this manuscript illustration, that he succumbed to a bout of faintly disapproving side-eye.
Portrait of Creation, bird in one hand, fish in another. Stowe MS 17; The Maastricht Hours
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Sylvia Plath, born #OTD in Boston, Mass, in 1932. Died by her own hand in 1963.
Her last poems, compiled and published after her death, Ariel in 1965. (This Faber reprint 1970)
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Our @NewCollegeOx Librarian, Christopher Skelton-Foord, will step away from our bookshelves next week for a piano four hands recital with British composer Frederick Stocken.
Why not check it out?👇
⏰Tuesday, 3 November, 1.15 pm
📍The chapel of @Catz_Cambridge
😀Free admission
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The Tower of Babel visited by God
Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 10th century, second half or late, to 11th century, early or first half; England (Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church (?); p.82 @bodleianlibs
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Born #OTD in 1889 (d 1981), playwright & novelist, Enid Bagnold - “a scallywag who married a very rich man” according to Virginia Woolf! . #Booksintomovies National Velvet, first pubd 1935, made into an eponymous movie in 1944, starring a young Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney.
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These arrived together. Poetry London continues to be one of the classiest magazines under Niall Campbell and Candlestick have proved that people will buy poetry if it's packaged thoughtfully
#poetrylondon #Candlestick
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"COOK piping hot fruit pies..."
(xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…)
Comalco Alfoil. Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
"Now in Australia
The first really strong cooking foil!!!..."
(xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…)
Comalco Alfoil. Woman's Day with Woman, 1963.
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In this calendar November is the time for a roaring fire and smithying.
#medievalcalendar
BL Cotton MS Tiberius B V /1; 11th century; f.8r @BLMedieval
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"For that 'Shocked' feeling
have a Life Saver"
(xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…)
Life Savers Pep O Mint "The candy mint with the hole". Australian Women's Weekly, 1949.
"For that 'uncertain' Feeling"
(xitter.cf/LaurenRosewarne/status…)
Life Savers Pep O Mint "The candy mint with the hole". Australian Women's Weekly, 1951.
