This is what happens when a Renaissance scribe gets bored

copying a 15th-century copy of Ficino’s translations of Plato ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩

#TuesdayMotivation

A happy dad from 1900 years ago:

'Dear Son,
I hope you are doing well! I have received the pickled fish you sent me with Polybios, delicious, thank you...'

Letter of Soverous to his son Chairas Bodleian Libraries
#MondayMotivation #dadlife #MondayMorning

Who is this guy on the margin of this 1000-year-old Greek gospel book ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ ?

Send us your thoughts
#tuesdaymotivation

Have you remembered to tax your vehicle?

Here is a reminder from 1880 years ago:

Tesenuphios taxed his camels - he paid fines for delay. This is his tax disc ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩

#TuesdayFeeling #TuesdayMotivation

Here is an explanation of the solar eclipse in one image

“The eclipse that happened at Christ’s death”

Bibliothèque BnF Fr 14694 #Eclipse2024 #EclipseSolar 2024 #EclipseSolar

Here we go again: the memory of the revelation of a heavenly recipe #OTD

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Caption challenge - Byzantine edition

What’s happening in this 800-year-old manuscript of the Book of Job ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩?

#thursdaymorning #thursdaymotivation

#Friday Feeling from 800 years ago:

Plato teaching Socrates and not the other way around Bodleian Libraries Ms Ashmole 304

Have a nice weekend

#Friday Motivation #Friday

To mark #InternationalPiDay , here is what Euclid says about this in the earliest surviving copy of his work Bodleian Libraries getting almost to π

'Circles are to one another as the squares on the diameters.'

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We all love lists - look at this from 1800 years ago Bodleian Libraries

-statue of emperor
-of empress no dedication, object too old
-of Demeter, Parian marble
-golden lamps with stones
-child armlets + child ring

Objects at a Temple on Broad street, no not in Oxford, Oxyrhynchos

“By these lines I am kissing you, dear mum, and ask to look after the kids a bit longer…”

Letter from Eutyches to his mum from about 2000 years ago ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ to mark #MothersDay and #internationalwomensday

How it started - how it's going...

A 2nd-century Latin booklet Bodleian Libraries and its late successor to mark #WorldBookDay

#WorldBookDay 2024

'Unwillingly, compelled by my difficult circumstances, I am writing to request, but only if you would possibly consider it favourable...
Might I please borrow your donkey' 🫏

Polite letter by Apollonios to his friend 2250 years ago Bodleian Libraries - hope he got it after all...

Do you remember your basics in geometry?
'Two parallel lines never meet...'

Did you know they come from Euclid (300BC)?

Thankfully, Archbishop Arethas purchased this copy Bodleian Libraries 1136 years ago from which many others derive.

medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manusc…

'More than 200 kilos of wheat was stolen from my threshing-floor last night. Please, your honour, punish the guilty to prevent others from crime and that I may obtain relief'

Police report from 2050 years ago Bodleian Libraries naming the susppects boldly

For this #halfterm - here is a #homework from ca. 1500 years ago Bodleian Libraries - LISTEN

'there is a well in the desert saying you can only get water if you find a rope of which one and a half and a quarter + one cubit = 100 cubits. How long should the rope be?

Good luck! 🤞

'I present this petition, and beg you, oh lord, release me from the cultivation of the public lands,...for men are more suitable for undertaking the cultivation'

A woman's voice from 1824 years ago Bodleian Libraries in her petition to the governor

#fragmentfriday treat from Oxford.

Could anyone offer a clue for this sheet? Looks like a commentary on Rev 2:8 but it’s not giving in. Please give it a go. #fragmentology people?