Ennius

A text worthy of a few notes: the beginning of Homer's Iliad

BL Burney MS 86; Townley Homer: Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia; ?1059 CE; f.1r

A hybrid creature inhabits the design surrounding the initial-word of Torah portion Ki Tisa (כִּי תִשָּׂא).
#ParashahPictures
BL Add 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; France, N; f.44v

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Ki Tisa (כִּי תִשָּׂא) with this hybrid and castle.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.53r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March and commemorates the Jewish people being saved from Haman's plot to destroy them. The initial-word panel at the beginning of Esther:
#Purim
BL Add 15282; 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch'; 14th c; Germany; f.307v

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here is the initial-word panel from Esther.
#Purim
BL Or 2628; The 'Lisbon Bible', vol. 3.; 1483 CE; Portugal, Central (Lisbon); f.152v

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here a micrographical pattern surrounds the initial-word of Esther.
#Purim
BL Or 2091; Former & Latter Prophets & Hagiographa with masorah magna & parva; 13th century; Germany; f.345v

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here is the decorated initial-word panel with birds and hybrids, at the beginning of the book of Esther
#Purim
Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 3; Pentateuch with Onkelos, Five Scrolls and Haftarot; 13th century; f.233r @BDLSS

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March & commemorates the Jewish people being saved from Haman's plot to destroy them. Here Ahasverus holds out the golden sceptre to Esther.
#Purim
BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f.260v

Initial 'D'(iu) at the beginning of Bk 1 Letter 1 of Sidonius to Constantius of Lyons:

"Diu praecipis domine maior summa suadendi auctoritate...."

BL Harley 4084; C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, Epistulae; 2nd half of the 12th century; France, S.; f.1r

Sorry to hear you're feeling unwell.

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan

this bread is beautiful

The Netherlands is a wonderful country!

Brighton would be much improved if we had the courage to do this.

“Blast! … The elephants are sick again!”

“Blast! … The elephants are sick again!”

'R'(everentissimo) with a dragon

Dijon, BM, 0168; Gregorius, Moralia in Job; 1111 CE; France (Cîteaux, abbaye Notre-Dame); f.4v

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here a micrographical pattern surrounds the initial-word of Esther.
#Purim
BL Or 2091; Former & Latter Prophets & Hagiographa with masorah magna & parva; 13th century; Germany; f.345v

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through The Night)

For St David’s Day, Ciaran Jenkins of Channel 4 News and I play the Welsh song Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through The Night). #StDavidsDay

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here is the decorated initial-word panel with birds and hybrids, at the beginning of the book of Esther
#Purim
Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 3; Pentateuch with Onkelos, Five Scrolls and Haftarot; 13th century; f.233r @BDLSS

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March. Here is the initial-word panel from Esther.
#Purim
BL Or 2628; The 'Lisbon Bible', vol. 3.; 1483 CE; Portugal, Central (Lisbon); f.152v

Purim 2026 begins on the evening of 2nd March and commemorates the Jewish people being saved from Haman's plot to destroy them. The initial-word panel at the beginning of Esther:
#Purim
BL Add 15282; 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch'; 14th c; Germany; f.307v

March is the time for digging the beds in the garden. #MedievalCalendar
MS M.399; Da Costa hours, illuminated by Simon Bening; ca. 1515 CE; Belgium; f.4v

March is the time for pruning; and there is new grass and flowers for the ram to eat.
#Medievalcalendar
BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.3r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

March is the time for blowing a horn!
#medievalcalendar
BL Lansdowne 383; the 'Shaftesbury Psalter'; 12th century; England; f.4r

March is the time for pruning.
#medievalcalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 939; Astrological and ecclesiastical calendar in six pieces; 14th century; England; section 2ar @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

March is the month for pruning.
#MedievalCalendar
BnF MS 1186; Psalter of St Louis & Blanche de Castille; 13th century; f.3r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

March is the time for digging, raking and sowing. #medievalcalendar
BL Cotton MS Tiberius B V /1; 11th century; f.4r

March is the time for digging, raking and sowing. #medievalcalendar
BL Cotton MS Tiberius B V /1; 11th century; f.4r

March is the time for digging and sowing
#medievalcalendar
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486-1506 CE; Bruges; ff.3v-4r

March is time for pruning and digging.
#MedievalCalendar
BnF MS Latin 1173; Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Heures de Charles d'Angoulême); 15th century; f.2r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

March is time for pruning and setting stocks in the vineyard.
#MedievalCalendar
BL Yates Thompson MS 3; 'The Dunois Hours'; c 1439 CE-c 1450 CE; France (Paris); f.3r