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On Thursday I finally managed to see the #LockdownBestiary manuscript in person – thank you to @JuliaWalworth for making it possible!
Incipit ‘Things I missed in the digital facsimile : a thread 🧵’ ft. a #BonusBeast not in our original posts! 🦔
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ALT 📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 1v-2r
I had a great time taking part in this #Beasts of #AI workshop last week, with a truly interdisciplinary panel 🦁 Thanks to @kaisirlin, @TORCHOxford, & co. for making it possible! I look forward to seeing how our beasts evolve as they meet new audiences! 👹
Looking forward to welcoming @MertonBeasts @_linehenriksen_ @NayanikaM @mooseabyte @SanNuvola & more to @bdi_oxford tomorrow to begin making a Critical Bestiary of AI. Thank you @TORCHOxford and @WEH_Oxford for making it possible! torch.ox.ac.uk/critical-best…
Finally back in the @britishmuseum today after far too long away, and enjoying looking at this 15thC pelican brooch which looks quite a lot like the one in our #LockdownBestiary! (📷 PE AF.2767)
Young pelicans appear to fight their elders quite a bit.
They often die but are revived when they're brought out of it.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 9r
ALT A manuscript illumination of pelicans and their young
This week featuring #Tupi 🇧🇷 with @maryknewman @TupiCorpus and #Welsh with @LoisLlWilliams! 🏴 #medievaltwitter
Starting on 28 April, every Wed 3-5pm: Digital Editions launches with live book presentations from @TAYOxford & @bodleianlibs! All welcome! historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.u…
Thanks to all the @BkHistOx students past and present involved in a great presentation today on this manuscript, and as promised we did get to see the crocodile! 🐊
During my internship with @HLaehnemann at @UniofOxford, @evneu and I started working on a #Digitaledition. Have a look at our work-in-progress report: historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.u…
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Thanks to everyone who came today! Looking forward to next week’s talk and some #crocodiles 🐊
Sebastian Dows-Miller @MertonBeasts talking about the opportunities for analysis, inc. quantitative analysis, provided by digital editions.
This starts tomorrow! Come along at 3pm to see the beasts live! 🦁
Starting on 28 April, every Wed 3-5pm: Digital Editions launches with live book presentations from @TAYOxford & @bodleianlibs! All welcome! historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.u…
📢 Oiez, oiez !
Hear about our beasts and see the manuscript live at the first of the #DigitalEditionsLive events by @BkHistOx.
For more details and to check out the other exciting talks on offer head to the link below!
bit.ly/3acLuzW
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 1v
Not a #grumpyfish this time, rather a somewhat confused one!
je trouve que la TL manque de poissons🐟
en voici un trouvé hier dans le Toulouse ms. 487 : ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:…
A very #grumpyfish indeed, but I can’t say I blame it!
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Alas! I have run out of beasts about which I can tell you.
By all means have a look again – there are a few to get through!
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter
📷 Merton College, MS 249
ALT A selection of manuscript illuminations depicting animals
Monkeys are great imitators, doing what they see.
Here we see them standing on two legs like you and me.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotAMonkey
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 7v
ALT A manuscript illumination of monkeys acting like humans
'Aptaleon,' I hear you ask, 'what kind of beast is that?'
It has great horns that cut down trees within its habitat.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotAnAptaleon #NotALion
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 4r
ALT A manuscript illumination of an aptaleon being hunted after being caught in a bush
The onager, a wild donkey, prefers night to day.
It cannot stand the equinox: we know this from its bray.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotAnOnager
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 7v
ALT A manuscript illumination of an onager
Our final bird's an asida, with two big hooves for feet.
She lays eggs in the desert where they're nurtured by the heat.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 5v
ALT A manuscript illumination of an asida
Young pelicans appear to fight their elders quite a bit.
They often die but are revived when they're brought out of it.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 9r
ALT A manuscript illumination of pelicans and their young
The night heron, just like the ibex, lives on bits and pieces;
and when it's dark, that evil time, its haunting call increases.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 10v
ALT A manuscript illumination of a night heron
A gentle bird, our friend the coot, makes nests on rocks or waters.
That way, you see, there is more food to feed its sons and daughters.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 10v
ALT A manuscript illumination of a coot making its nest on water and on a rock
The ibex, meanwhile, lives a wicked life feeding on scraps.
It daren't go near the Nile, fearing the crocodile, who snaps.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds #WhyWouldYouTrimThat
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 10r
ALT A manuscript illumination of an ibex eating something that has been trimmed away
Of all the birds the hoopoe to its parents is most caring.
When they get old it carries them around, their bodies bearing.
#LockdownBestiary #Oxford #MedievalTwitter #NotBirds #NotABadHoopoe
📷 Merton College, MS 249, f. 10r
ALT A manuscript illumination of a hoopoe carrying its parents