Madonna in Majesty with a model of the church. At her feet is the abbot, probably Konrad I (1218-25), who commissioned the book München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 17401(1; Scheyerer Book of Matins, Vol 1; c.1215 - 1230; Scheyern, Benedictine Abbey; p.53

In Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) Moses encounters the presence of God in the burning bush. Just look at the dog! #ParashahPictures BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N.E.; f.10v

Decorated initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) #ParashahPictures BL Add 15282; the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch'; 14th century; Germany; f.75v

Two dragons inhabit the initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת). #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324; f.28v

Decorated initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) together with some micrography #ParashahPictures BL Add 19776; the 'Coburg Pentateuch'; 1390 CE-1396 CE; Germany, Central (Coburg); f.28v

Initial-word panel surrounded by a floral border inhabited by birds at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) #ParashahPictures BL Harley 7621; Torah with Rashi's commentary and Targum Onkelos; 1450 CE-1474 CE; Italy, N. E; f.76v

Here a strange hybrid with one head & two bodies hovers over the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת). #ParashahPictures BL Add 26878; Torah with Targum Onkelos & Rashi's commentary; France; 14th century; f.50v

The initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) is inhabited by dragons, birds, hybrids, and faces. #ParashahPictures BL Add 21160; 'the Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.63v

Initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) with penwork decoration and full foliate border #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 15283; Torah, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls; 15th century; Portugal (Lisbon); f.48v

Initial-word panel inhabited by dragons, with a hybrid below, at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 3; Torah with Onkelos; 1299 CE; f.54(ii)r

An elegant initial-word panel begins Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת). #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 15251; Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible'; 1448-1498 CE; Italy NE (Ferrara); f.41v

The Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) begins a new book of the Torah as is clearly marked. #ParashahPictures BnF Hébreu 29; 15th century; f.43r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) in the 'Lisbon Bible' begins with this word panel with exquisite penwork decoration. #ParashahPictures BL Oriental 2626; 'Lisbon Bible'; 1483 CE; Portugal, Central (Lisbon); f.61v

Initial-word with penwork and full floral border at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 27167; the 'Almanzi Pentateuch' with Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls; 1450 CE-1474 CE; Portugal (Lisbon); f.86r

Micrography marks the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) in the 'Harley Catalan Bible'. #ParashahPictures BL Harley MS 1528; The 'Harley Catalan Bible'; c.1350 CE; Spain, NE (Catalonia); f.36v

Initial-word panel decorated with penwork at the beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) #ParashahPictures BL Harley MS 5710; Bible, vol. 1.; 1275 CE-1299 CE; Italy (Rome or Bologna); f.34v

The beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) has a beautiful partial foliate border. #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 15423; Torah; 1441-1467 CE; Italy, Central (Florence); f.35v

Initial-word panel of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) with gold letters and white vine scrolls #ParashahPictures BL Or 2696; 1350-1399 CE; Germany, S; f.104v

The beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) is indicated by this initial-word panel with exquisite penwork decoration and two entwined dragons. #ParashahPictures BnF Hébreu 36; Bible. A.T. (hébreu); 1300 CE; Poligny (France); f.71v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

The beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) in the 'The Kennicott Bible' is surrounded by this design in gold with blue penwork. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.36r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

In Torah Portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת ) the divine name is revealed to Moses. #ParashahPictures BL King's 1; the 'King's Bible'; Spain, N. E.(Solsona); 14th century (with later additions); f.2r

The beginning of Torah portion Shemot (שְׁמוֹת) is separated from the end of Torah portion Vayechi (וַיְחִי ) with a box of red and gold. #parashahpictures BnF MS Hébreu 20. Bible (תנ"ך); 1301 CE; Tudela (Spain); f.39v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Thanks, @enniusredloeb.bsky.social! A good opportunity to mention this important book: Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction, and Use by Emilie Savage-Smith. #histsci #astrohistory repository.si.edu/items/0d9cfc...

Map ofthe World, and Christ holding a globe containing the names of the principal kingdoms and cities of Asia, Europe, and Africa BL Add MS 28681; 1262-1300; 'The Map Psalter'; England; ff.9r-9v

Map of the world with Jerusalem at the centre & the globe held by Christ whose head, hands & feet are visible BL Add 8785; Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum trans. into Mantuan dialect by Vivaldo del Belcalzer; Italy, N. (Mantua); before 1309; f.315

Christ in majesty, surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists, and with a globe beneath his feet BL Add MS 28107; 'The Stavelot Bible' vol 2; 1093 CE-1097 CE; Stavelot; f.136r

According to @gallicabnf.bsky.social here the name "America" is used for the very first time on a globe, only fifteen years after the first voyage of Christopher Columbus Terrestrial globe called "green globe", Martin Waldseemüller; 1506-1507 CE gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Arabic celestial globe made by DJe(m) al-ed-din Mohammed ibn Mohammed el Hachimi el-Mecki; 1573 @gallicabnf.bsky.social gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

"Trump risks pushing world back to age of empires" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Delighted to have got my hands on this new book by @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social!

A great line-up of medieval seminars for @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social in Edinburgh, including @medievaljay.bsky.social, "Raiders of the Lost Patriarchs: Hebron and Crusader Jerusalem"... hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medie...

Skating On The Yorkshire Wolds ( yesterday ) Off for a few days , back soon , best wishes , James ⛸️

What a time to be alive & out of the EU 🙄

We should set aside talk of ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal officers being poorly trained, and recognize instead what they're being trained to do. Aggressive, provocative tactics are deliberate. Efforts to frame protesters in situations where officers claim they were assaulted is a pattern.

A recent post from @sims-mss.bsky.social reminded me of a really cool UPenn manuscript that I keep meeting to write about. It's UPenn Ms. Codex 1056, a lovely Book of Hours for the Use of Rouen. colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/8143...

Many Books of Hours from this place and time (15th-c. France) illustrate the Calendar pages with the Labor of the Month on one side and the Zodiac on the other. Like several other Rouen Books of Hours I've seen, however, this one uses Biblical analogues instead of the Zodiac!

My letter @thetimes.com today. Trump can achieve ALL his security objectives in Greenland by cooperating with Denmark (under their 1951 Treaty) and NATO. To show that Arctic security is a genuine NATO endeavour, the UK, France and others should also make military deployments in and around Greenland

“What? … You mean no one brought the buns?”

I think most of us who've spent years visiting the capital for a variety of reasons but have never been able to afford to live there envy rather than pity you! What London definitely does not need is Laila Cunningham!

Apparently, I’m Supposed to be Pitied for Living in London open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

German national research funding agency allows the use of AI in evaluating projects. What could possibly go wrong?

Trump’s America: - ICE agents murder US citizen driving away from them - kidnaps foreign head of state - threatens to invade allies - soft on Russian invasion of Ukraine - unilaterally tears up trade agreements - backs far-right parties in Europe - sabotages climate treaties - leaves WHO

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

I think it really does matter that, in the world's flagship democracy - on which we depend economically and militarily - a paramilitary force is shooting people in the streets & lying about it. Esp. when our own Opposition party says it wants a British ICE. As democrats, we should care about this.

And Jesus was not separated from his parents and put into a cage. Joseph didn't get sent into an el-salvadorian death camp. Mary didn't get beat up by an immigration agent. How is this part of Christ's life story not shaking certain people to their core?

The Flight into Egypt; BL Cotton MS Nero C IV; 'Winchester Psalter'; f.14r

'Da mihi sub pedibus posse iacere tuis.' BnF MS Latin 12033; Amalarius Metensis, Liber officialis; Corbie, France; 12th c; f.Av @gallicabnf.bsky.social B.16.3; Rabanus,De Laude Crucis; 10th c; f.30v @trincolllibcam.bsky.social MS Arundel 155; 'The Eadui Psalter';11th c; f.133r

Seven more detections of BA.3.2 from US wastewater. It's fanning out, this week it includes detections in CA, UT, and NYC.

It’s worth a 5 minute walk west of the village car park in #Corbridge to see the Roman bridge stones which carried Dere Street over the river Tyne. The stones have been moved from their excavation site to better protect and display then. #HadriansWall #archaeology

Paleography peeps: I'm collecting examples of premodern descriptive or evaluative (sc. judgy) language about script. E.g. Boniface requesting a book "claris et absolutis litteris scripti" because he can't read "minutas litteras ac connexas" anymore. #medievalsky 🧵